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  1. Lying at length; prostrate. [Rare.] Because so laid, they [brick or squared stones] are more apt, in swagging down, to pierce with their points than in the jacent posture, and so to crevice the wall. Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiæ, p. 20.

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  1. = Spanish yacente = Portuguese jacente, from Latin jacen(t-)s, present participle of jacēre, lie, be prostrate, from jacĕre, throw, cast: see jet, jactation, jaculate, etc. Cf. adjacent, circumjacent, etc.
 

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