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–verb (used with object), sicked or sicced    Audio Help   [sikt] Pronunciation Key, sick·ing or sic·cing.
1.to attack (used esp. in commanding a dog): Sic 'em!
2.to incite to attack (usually fol. by on).
Also, sick.


[Origin: 1835–45; var. of seek]
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sic2    Audio Help   [sik] Pronunciation Key
–adjective Chiefly Scot.
such.

[Origin: 1325–75; ME (north and Scots); see such]
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–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).
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SIC
U.S. Government.
Standard Industrial Classification: a system used by the federal government to classify business activities for analytical and reporting purposes.
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Sic.
1.Sicilian.
2.Sicily.
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sic 1    Audio Help   (sĭk)  Pronunciation Key 
adv.   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.


[Latin sīc; see so- in Indo-European roots.]

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sic 2 also sick    Audio Help   (sĭk)  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   sicced also sicked, sic·cing also sick·ing, sics also sicks
  1. To set upon; attack.
  2. To urge or incite to hostile action; set: sicced the dogs on the intruders.


[Dialectal variant of seek.]

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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

adverb
1. intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase) 

verb
1. urge to attack someone; "The owner sicked his dogs on the intruders"; "the shaman sics sorcerers on the evil spirits" 

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sic

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].’”


[Chapter:] Conventions of Written English


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SiC

Car`bo*run"dum\, [Carbon + corundum.] A beautiful crystalline compound, SiC, consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive.
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Sic

Sic\, a. Such. [Scot.]
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SIC
standard industry classification

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