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Sic

adverb
1.
Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
verb
(past sicced; past part. sicced or sicked; pres. part. siccing or sicking)
1.
Urge to attack someone.  Synonym: set.  "The shaman sics sorcerers on the evil spirits"






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"Sic" Quotes from Famous Books



... and this song is uttered; Accept the skilful[sic] poem, manly heroes. These prayers, to you belonging, have ascended, O all ye gods protect us aye ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins

... collige grana: No careas thure; cum hyoscyamo ure: Sic que per embotum fumun cape dente remotum." Regimen sanitatis salernitanum ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie

... opening. But he'll bear watching. He's capable of putting her on a train and running away with her. Between you and me, I don't blame him. What's the matter with sicking the Barone on him? He's the best man in Southern Italy with foils and broadswords. Sic 'em, Towser; sic 'em!" ...
— The Place of Honeymoons • Harold MacGrath

... it said. "Sic transit gloria.... Call me Arnulf the goldsmith and Robert the scrivener.... Quick, man, quick. I have much ...
— The Path of the King • John Buchan

... effodiendo non absoluissent, aut si quid leuioris denique delicti perpetrassent. Etenim vesperi reduces, coenae loco, primum vestimentis exuebant, manibus dein pedibusque in transuerso palo reuinciebant: mox chorda bubaloue neruo dirissime verberabant. Sic tractatos, pice oleoue feruenti guttatim perfundebant; salita post aqua corpus abluebant, et in mensa tamdiu relinquebant, quamdiu dolorem ferre posse putarentur. Qui mos animaduertendi ipsis etiam in Christianos seruos domi familiaris ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of - the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. • Richard Hakluyt


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