Sic
[sɪk]
Definition
(verb.) urge to attack someone; 'The owner sicked his dogs on the intruders'; 'the shaman sics sorcerers on the evil spirits'.
(adv.) intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
Inputed by Evelyn--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Such.
(adv.) Thus.
Edited by Janet
Definition
adv. so thus—printed within brackets in quoted matter to show that the original is being correctly reproduced even though incorrect or wrong.—Sic passim so throughout.
adj. Scotch forms of such.—adj. Sic′-like for such-like of the same kind.
Inputed by Kurt
Examples
- For the rest {sic} the man's life moved in a narrow and conventional circle, for his habits were quiet and his nature unemotional. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Pasteur accompanied by wife and daughter had gone in search of his son, sic k at Pontarlier. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- What happened with {sic} this: This young fellow had employed his afternoon at the athletic grounds, where he had been practising the jump. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His inventions in this line were directed to the best means of utilising and controlling the force of springs, his motto being _ut tensio sic vis_, (as the tension is so is the force. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Edited by Jacqueline