Sic

Quick meaning: Sic is an adverb meaning Thus; as written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source.

Meaning

Thus; as written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Used in the manner of scare quotes
2. To mark with a bracketed sic.
3. (transitive) To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs.
4. (transitive) To set upon; to chase; to attack.

Example Sentences

whole bussiness: Quoted sic in George F. Willison, Saints and Strangers (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1945)

In the posting, Matthews said he wished that, “more blacks [sic] people would look into ancient beliefs of pre Christian Africa.”

Bolinger, Dwight (1977) ‘Pronoun and repeated nouns.’ Lingua18:1-34 [Quoted sic in Toolan 1990. Neither in Lingua 18, nor in the 1977 volume of that journal.]

The fact is, of course, that the modern reviewer’s taste is not really shocked by half the things he sics or otherwise castigates, but he must find something to say and above all make a slow of purism.

Word Forms

• sics
• siccing
• sicced
• sicc
• sick

Synonyms for sic

Depending on context, synonyms include set.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include set, traduction, translation, thus, original, sci.

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