Sic Definition

sĭk, sēk
sicced, siccing, sicked, sicking, sicks, sics
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.
American Heritage
Thus; so.
Webster's New World
verb
sics
To set upon; pursue and attack.
Webster's New World
To urge or incite to attack.
To sic a dog on someone.
Webster's New World

To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs.

He sicced his dog on me!
Wiktionary
To mark with a bracketed sic.
E. Belfort Bax wrote "... the modern reviewer's taste is not really shocked by half the things he sics or otherwise castigates."
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
adjective

Such.

Webster's New World

Origin of Sic

  • Latin sīc so- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin sÄ«c (“thus, so").

    From Wiktionary

  • Dialectal variant of seek

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Variant of seek.

    From Wiktionary

Sic Sentence Examples

  • Abelard's remarkable compilation Sic et Non was not calculated to allay their suspicions.

  • Spottiswoode married Rachel, daughter of David Lindsay, bishop of Ross, and besides a daughter left two sons, Sir John Spottiswoode of Dairsie in Fife, and Sir Robert, president of ' To each of his comrades in this journey Spotswood presented a small golden horseshoe, lettered "Sic juvat transcendere montes."

  • Abelard, too, started from tradition; but he discovered that the statements of the various authorities are very often in the relation of sic et non, yes and no.

  • In 1877 Henry Stevens, in his catalogue of the Caxton Exhibition, pointed out a statement by a certain Simeon Ruytinck in his life of Emanuel van Meteren, appended to the latter's Nederlandische Historie (1614), that Jacob van Meteren, the father of Emanuel, had manifested great zeal in producing at Antwerp a translation of the Bible into English, and had employed for that purpose a certain learned scholar named Miles Conerdale (sic).

  • The XVIth dynasty is of thirty-two "Hellenic (sic?) shepherd kings," the seventeenth is of "shepherds and Theban kings" (reigning simultaneously).

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