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sic transit gloria mundi

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sic tran⋅sit glo⋅ri⋅a mun⋅di

  [seek trahn-sit gloh-ri-ah moon-dee; Eng. sik tran-sit glawr-ee-uh muhn-dahy, -dee, glohr-, -zit]
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Latin.
thus passes away the glory of this world.
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Sic transit gloria mundi [(sik tran-sit glawr-ee-uh moon-dee)]

Latin for “Thus passes away the glory of the world”; worldly things do not last.

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

sic transit gloria mundi 
1601, from L., lit. "thus passes the glory of the world;" perhaps an alteration of a passage in Thomas Á Kempis' "Imitatio Christi" (1471).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

sic transit gloria mundi

Nothing on earth is permanent, as in His first three novels were bestsellers and now he can't even find an agentsic transit gloria mundi. This expression, Latin for "Thus passes the glory of the world," has been used in English since about 1600, and is familiar enough so that it is sometimes abbreviated to sic transit.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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