a. ? Obs. [ad. L. jacēnt-em, pr. pple. of jacēre to lie.] Lying; recumbent; fig. sluggish.

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1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., V. i. § 12. 4. Countryes and Kingdomes farre iacent and remote.

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1624.  Wotton, Archit., in Reliq. (1651), 224. Brick or squared Stones … laid in their lengths with sides and heads together, or their Points conjoyned … are more apt in swagging down to pierce with their points then in the jacent posture.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Jacent, lying along, slow, sluggish.

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1668.  H. More, Div. Dial., II. xxvi. (1713), 174. My palate is something more surd and jacent.

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1682.  Wheler, Journ. Greece, III. 282. A jacent Figure, holding a Reed in his right hand.

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  b.  Her. = JESSANT 1.

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1706.  Phillips (ed. Kersey), Jessant, or Jacent,… us’d when in a Coat of Arms a Lion or other Beast is born over some Ordinary, as over a Chief Bend, or Fesse.

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