Sic

Word SIC
Character 3
Hyphenation ‖Sic sic
Pronunciations /sɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Sic"

What do we mean by sic?

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. adverb

To set upon; attack. transitive verb

To urge or incite to hostile action; set. transitive verb

A Scotch form of such.

A call to pigs or to sheep.

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.”

An abbreviation of Sicilian noun

Of Sicily. noun

Thus. adverb

Such. adjective

Thus; thus written adverb

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

To set upon; to chase; to attack. verb

Urge to attack someone verb

Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase) adverb

To mark with a bracketed sic.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Sic

The word "sic" in example sentences

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.' ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Sen. Kyle [sic] is a long-standing senator from Arizona and expert on immigration. ❋ Terry Krepel (2010)

“One estimate by Lewin Associates [sic] is 131 million Americans will lose their private insurance and be pushed into a government plan,” he claimed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Ahh the justification of hyprocisy [sic] is always so transparent. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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 (2010)

“Nineteen Eighty-Four: and the Via Dolorosa Project” [sic] is a documentary that centers around a painting the Singh Twins did that was meant to memorialize the Sikh massacre of 1984. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is to the far right of Reagan, who raised taxes and eventually cut defense, and helped reform social security to ensure its longterm sic viability. ❋ Chris Weigant (2010)

It is an illusion that fixates on stuff the GOP already should be doing while not daring to touch on stuff that will have any meaningful longterm sic effects on the size and scope of the federal government. ❋ Chris Weigant (2010)

But could someone pleaes explain what [sic] is supposed to mean, is it for clarifying errors in spelling, grammar, or context. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Brad Plummer [sic] is having predictable good fun with it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The illusion of sic is that everything is displayed, but the reality is that without the final products of the labor to compare, the record will always be incomplete, and will remain pieces whose sum is less than the sum of the whole. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The subject of sic is the record kept by a keylogger installed on my computer. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Like a blog, sic is frequent and chronological – but unlike a blog it is a strictly linear record of non-linear processes. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"No other country in the word sic would toss away this advantage." ❋ Lindsay Stewart (2009)

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