jacent, a. ? Obs.
(ˈdʒeɪsənt)
[ad. L. jacēnt-em, pr. pple. of jacēre to lie.]
Lying; recumbent; fig. sluggish.
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. v. i. §12. 4 Countryes and Kingdomes farre iacent and remote. 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. 1656 Blount Glossogr., Jacent, lying along, slow, sluggish. 1668 H. More Div. Dial. ii. xxvi. (1713) 174 My palate is something more surd and jacent. 1682 Wheler Journ. Greece iii. 282 A jacent Figure holding a reed in his right hand. |
b. Her. = jessant 1.
| 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. |