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hic

Interjection

Meaning

hic

An approximation to the sound of a hiccup, used e.g. to indicate drunkenness.
"This wine - hic! - tasted good."

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Examples

May no rude hand deface it, And its forlorn hic jacet. William Wordsworth

Presently, too, as I observed the wretched beings about me more closely, I perceived that they were all quite dead. Their bodies were so many living sepulchres. On each brutal brow was plainly written the hic jacet of a soul dead within. Edward Bellamy

Barbarus hic ego sum, quia non intelligor illis. (In this place I am a barbarian, because men do not understand me.) Ovid

Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.) Ovid

Hoc opus, hic labor est. Virgil

Genus vero philosophie, sub quo hic in toto et parte proceditur, est morale negotium, sive ethica; quia non ad speculandum, sed ad opus inventum est totum et pars. Dante Alighieri

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