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sic

[sik]

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verb (used with object), sicked or sicced

[sikt] , sick·ing or sic·cing.

to attack (used especially in commanding a dog): Sic 'em!

to incite to attack (usually followed by on).

Also, sick.

Origin:
1835–45; variant of seek

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to bark; yelp.

to steal or take dishonestly (money, esp. public funds, or property entrusted to one's care); embezzle.

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Scientists have long sought ways to sic the body's own immune system on cancer cells.

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Supplement their diet with snails and sic them on the bugs in your orchard.

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adjective Chiefly Scot.

such.

Origin:
1325–75; Middle English (north and Scots); see such

adverb Latin.

so; thus: usually written parenthetically to denote that a word, phrase, passage, etc., that may appear strange or incorrect has been written intentionally or has been quoted verbatim: He signed his name as e. e. cummings (sic).

Can be confused: sic, sick.

U.S. Government.

Standard Industrial Classification: a system used by the federal government to classify business activities for analytical and reporting purposes.

Sicilian.

Sicily.

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sic¹ (sɪk)

—*adv*
	so or thus: inserted in brackets in a written or printed text to indicate that an odd or questionable reading is what was actually written or printed

[Latin]

sic² (sɪk)

—vb , sics, sicking, sicked
1.	to turn on or attack: used only in commands, as to a dog
2.	to urge (a dog) to attack

[C19: dialect variant of seek]

sic³ (sɪk)

—*determiner, —adv*
	a Scot word for such

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Word Origin & History

sic

1887, insertion in printed quotation to call attention to error in the original, from L. sic "so, thus," related to si "if," from PIE base *so- "this, that" (cf. O.E. sio "she").

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sic definition

A Latin word for “thus,” used to indicate that an apparent error is part of quoted material and not an editorial mistake: “The learned geographer asserts that ‘the capital of the United States is Washingtown [sic].’”

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

SIC
standard industry classification

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"Ordinary People ... are so used to be dazled [sic] with Riches, that they pay as much Deference to the Understanding of a Man of an Estate, as of a Man of Learning; and are very hardly brought to regard any Truth, how important soever it may be, that is preached to them, when they know there are several Men of five hundred a Year who do not believe it."

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