Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally.
- transitive verb To set upon; attack.
- transitive verb To urge or incite to hostile action; set.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of Sicilian
- noun of Sicily.
- A Scotch form of
such . - See
sick . - So; thus: a word often inserted within brackets in quoted matter after an erroneous word or date, an astonishing statement, or the like, as an assurance that the citation is an exact reproduction of the original: as, “It was easily [sic] to see that he was angry.”
- A call to pigs or to sheep.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Scot. Such.
- adverb Thus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
thus ; thus written - verb transitive To
incite anattack by, especially a dog or dogs. - verb transitive To
set upon ; tochase ; toattack .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb urge to attack someone
- adverb intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Seneca the Younger: You're correct that in Latin 'sic' means 'thus'; however, in editing, 'sic' means 'it was wrong in the original and I'm anal enough to point that out to you in case you missed that horrendous grammatical/spelling error.'
Congressman Peter Hoekstra tweets a security breach! Ann Althouse 2009
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How these data trouble Professor Hospital's claim that Columbia students are the "cream of the cream [sic]" is a subject for further debate.
Seth Abramson: Columbia Professor's E-mail to Students Was Pure Fiction Seth Abramson 2010
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“One estimate by Lewin Associates [sic] is 131 million Americans will lose their private insurance and be pushed into a government plan,” he claimed.
Heads up staffers, tips to avoid a Health Care "Town Hell" (Blog for Democracy) 2009
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Ahh the justification of hyprocisy [sic] is always so transparent.
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Los Angeles County is 40 percent Roman Catholic, and 95 percent Christain [sic], and yet these percentages are not reflected in the ethnic diversity of judges in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Robert Davenport 2010
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How these data trouble Professor Hospital's claim that Columbia students are the "cream of the cream [sic]" is a subject for further debate.
Seth Abramson: Columbia Professor's E-mail to Students Was Pure Fiction Seth Abramson 2010
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Sen. Kyle [sic] is a long-standing senator from Arizona and expert on immigration.
Terry Krepel: A Laughable, Error-Ridden 'Case for Impeachment' Terry Krepel 2010
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How these data trouble Professor Hospital's claim that Columbia students are the "cream of the cream [sic]" is a subject for further debate.
Seth Abramson: Columbia Professor's E-mail to Students Was Pure Fiction Seth Abramson 2010
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Sen. Kyle [sic] is a long-standing senator from Arizona and expert on immigration.
Terry Krepel: A Laughable, Error-Ridden 'Case for Impeachment' Terry Krepel 2010
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How these data trouble Professor Hospital's claim that Columbia students are the "cream of the cream [sic]" is a subject for further debate.
Seth Abramson: Columbia Professor's E-mail to Students Was Pure Fiction Seth Abramson 2010
mikeropology commented on the word sic
I lub sic this word!
November 29, 2007
amacleod03 commented on the word sic
(verb) To urge or incite to hostile action, as in siccing dogs upon someone. In a metaphoric sense, any time someone is ordered to go after another. There is an implication that the purpose is to do harm to the object of siccing, not simply to dissuade or drive off.
July 27, 2009
PossibleUnderscore commented on the word sic
Sic transit gloria mundi.
July 27, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word sic
Sic semper tyrannis.
July 27, 2009
milosrdenstvi commented on the word sic
Caesar sic in omnibus.
July 27, 2009
dontcry commented on the word sic
"Mommy, I feel sic...hooooork."
July 27, 2009
yarb commented on the word sic
"She's probably sicced the pols and nats both on me."
- P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said.
March 26, 2012