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sic as in:  "feel grate" sic

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  • He said it was a mistake to put the "Mission Accomplished" sign "on a (sic) aircraft carrier."
    sic = indicates that a word or phrase that looks incorrect, is quoted accurately
  • "I've heard and also saw with my own eyes that I'm washed-up that is I was reported to have died in combat… Yes, one of those who died gallantry [sic] fighting for the cause…"   (source)
    sic = indicates that a word or phrase that looks incorrect, is as it should be
  • The Jal Mahal Restaruant (sic) was a shabby, tucked-away Indian on the second floor of a storefront on Lex where not a thing had changed since I was a kid: not the pappadums, not the prices, not the carpet faded pink from water damage near the windows, not even the waiters: the same heavy, beatific, gentle faces I remembered from childhood when my mother and I had gone there after the movies for samosas and mango ice cream.   (source)
  • We sincerely hope that the time allotted for the teams [sic] practice was useful and productive for the coaching staff and the players alike.   (source)
  • "I am embarrased [sic] that this girl is getting this much press for something that does nothing for the community..."   (source)
  • Disinterested, disjoin—Where's disipline [sic]?   (source)
  • "Once I dreamed," declared a little boy, "that I was captured by cannon balls [sic]."   (source)
  • The snatches of conversation which he had caught between Christine and the monster had contributed not a little to drive him beside himself: add to that the shock of the magic forest and the scorching heat which was beginning to make the prespiration[sic] stream down his temples and you will have no difficulty in understanding his state of mind.   (source)
  • If I had kent of these reefs, if I had had a chart, or if Shuan had been spared, it's not sixty guineas, no, nor six hundred, would have made me risk my brig in sic a stoneyard!   (source)
    sic = sic is a Scots word for such
  • "She was using other peoples [sic] problems to further her 15 minutes."   (source)
    sic = indicates that a word or phrase that looks incorrect, is as it should be
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  • Louis is not on the track anymore an [sic] for that we are sorry.   (source)
  • ...and it's a might [sic] hard job even now to realize we're free men.   (source)
  • Dear Coaching Staff (Luma Mufleh and Tracy Ediger): This letter is to serve immediate notice that the activity/ball fields located at Milam Park and Armistead fields will no longer be available due to the cities [sic] reactivation of its youth recreation program that will be administered through a local organization.   (source)
  • ...does nothing for the community except renforce [sic] that fact that in the Yakima County there is a high number of...   (source)
  • You might pass the glad tidings along, Mrs. Zamperini, for we know all the lovers of the (spiked shoe) sport will b [sic] glad to hear this.   (source)
  • It said it came from the Mariana Island group, flew over the city and 'was drive off' [sic] without dropping a single bomb.   (source)
  • There's just one thing left to say as we bunk down for the night," he continued, "an [sic] that it's wonderful to be Americans and free men,   (source)
  • "Boy, I really feel sorry for a fellow like that. and the blame lies with the official who allow such unreliable rports [sic]"   (source)
  • As you probably know, I returned to Japan in 1952 [sic] and was graciously allowed to address all the Japanese war criminals at Sugamo Prison ….   (source)
  • After all the least they can do is to let the folks back home know just where theri boy are [sic] ….   (source)
  • The next voice heard will be that of First Lieutenant Louis Helzie [sic] Zamperini, United States Air Force, now interned in the Tokyo camp.   (source)
  • 'tis about 6 p. m., and I'm lying here in blissful misery just as all POWs have sat around and dreamed about throughout this internment, in short so full of chow that it's hard to even breath [sic]   (source)
  • To Matsuhiro [sic] Watanabe, As a result of my prisoner of war experience under your unwarranted and unreasonable punishment, my post-war life became a nightmare.   (source)
  • It makes us very happy indeed to have performed this service for our prisoners and relatives and it is out [sic] earnest wish that no other such instances of this information will be forthcoming.   (source)
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sic rare meaning

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  • In the law this crime is called Non compos mentis lex talionis sic transit gloria mundi.   (source)
    sic = "Non compos mentis lex talionis sic transit gloria mundi," translated, means "Not of sound mind law of retaliation thus passes away the glory of the world"
  • If ever the sic vos non vobis was applicable, it certainly is to that village of Waterloo.   (source)
    sic = "Sic vos non vobis" is a Latin phrase meaning, “thus we work, but not for ourselves.”
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sic as in:  sic the dog

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  • She was arrested for siccing her dog on an unarmed man.
    siccing = urging attack of
  • Wait until I'm in the arena and sic starving wild animals on me.   (source)
    sic = to instruct an animal to attack
  • Whatever I say, one or the other of you is going to sic the dog on me.   (source)
    sic = urge attack of
  • And Granmère sicced him on me!†   (source)
  • I know about for-EN-sics!'†   (source)
  • "Sic semper tyrannis!" he thundered.†   (source)
  • Get out of my sight before I sic him on you," Sam says.†   (source)
  • I understand: A kid with a Watchtower magazine on your front porch isn't a Girl Scout with cookies, but, hey, you didn't have to sic your dog on me.†   (source)
  • That's 'sic semper tyrannis.'†   (source)
  • "Sic semper tyrannis," he will bellow in his most vibrant thespian delivery: Thus always to tyrants.†   (source)
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  • Invoking his state's Revolutionary motto, Sic Semper Tyrannis, a young Virginia officer filled letters to his mother with comparisons of the North's "war of subjugation against the South" to "England's war upon the colonies."†   (source)
  • She whispered, "Sic him!"†   (source)
  • Sic semper cum Frogs.   (source)
    sic = sic semper is a Latin phrase that means thus always
  • You better look out, Pervert, or I'll sic my dog on you.†   (source)
  • After leaping from the balcony Booth will stand tall and, in his best elocution, announce, "Sic semper tyrannis": Thus always to tyrants.†   (source)
  • It's like siccing a python on a bunny rabbit and then being angry when the bunny rabbit loses.†   (source)
  • But my dad wouldn't get out, even though technically the loft belongs to my mom (thank God Carol Fernandez didn't put the loft's address in the paper; and thank God my mom is so paranoid about Jesse Helms siccing the CIA on sociopolitical artists like herself, in order to yank their NEA grants, that she keeps our phone number unlisted; no reporters have discovered the loft, so we can at least order in Chinese without fear of hearing a story on Extra on how much the Princess Amelia likes moo shu vegetable).†   (source)
  • Sic him, Pete!†   (source)
  • Sic him!†   (source)
  • Sic him onto Beasley's gang," replied John.†   (source)
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  • Hwo (sic) did this to me?†   (source)
  • At 8:30 P.M. [sic] Mr. Evans was administered a second thirty-second jolt of electricity.†   (source)
  • Sic your cripple on me?†   (source)
  • how the heavenly an-them drowns All mu-sic but its own; A-wake, my soul, and sing Of him who died for thee, And hail him as thy match-less king Through all e-ter-nity.†   (source)
  • I definitely don't recognize the song she's playing—or blasting, really, so loud I have to remind myself that Hana's house is shielded on four sides by trees and lawn, and no one will sic the regulators on her.†   (source)
  • If you sic those stairs on me again, I'm gonna report you to the Disciplinary Committee myself.†   (source)
  • "It is," Margaret declares near the end of her letter, "the oney [sic] way you & That Man can avoid the Rain of Blood yet to come.†   (source)
  • The way it made the community look bad "I am embarrased [sic] that this girl is getting this much press for something that does nothing for the community except renforce [sic] that fact that in the Yakima County there is a high number of hispanic [sic] girls who get pregnant ...She is a cruel and selfish little girl who needs to learn that her actions not only affect her but her family and ultimently [sic] her entire community" The deception "I mean COME ON who did she really help?†   (source)
  • A few whacks of the ice-axe, a few cautious steps, and Tensing [sic] and I were on top.†   (source)
  • And some other voice coming like a sharp whisper out of way back in his breed, not a smart voice, nothing cagey about it, saying, Sic 'im, dog, sic 'im!†   (source)
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  • I'll sic Pilot on you.†   (source)
  • She'll be there, and if you come, I promise to sic my dad on Mr. Cavallo.†   (source)
  • Sic them on the angels, of course.†   (source)
  • Benjamin Franklin, whose print shop had published in German, wrote in 1751 that Pennsylvania "will in a few years become a German Colony: Instead of their learning our language, we must learn their's [sic], or live as in a foreign country.†   (source)
  • You'll tear Miss Gus— sic's gown!†   (source)
  • As they say, ut incepit fidelis sic permanet.†   (source)
  • But he didn't come and he didn't sic 'em.†   (source)
  • Ralph & I, like Mary & Joseph, will neither know or polute [sic] each other's flesh.†   (source)
  • Juliet will probably tell her mom to sic the cops on me.†   (source)
  • The kids started to follow him around and sic their dogs onto him.†   (source)
  • I wanted to sic her on him, shout, "He ain't in here, Granny!†   (source)
  • how the heaven-ly an-them drowns All mu-sic but its own; A-wake, my soul, and sing Of him who died for thee, And hail him as thy match-less king Through all e-ter-ni-ty.†   (source)
  • Sic 'em!†   (source)
  • The waiting pilchard boats was [sic] a sight that made father pish and pshaw at table.†   (source)
  • A lifelong advocate of a union of the two great English-speaking (sic) nations, making together irresistibly for peace, truth, and righteousness in a benevolent but firm authority over the less responsible elements of civilization, he passed, the Catholic man, pleasantly dedicated to the brave adventuring of minds and the salvaging of mankind.†   (source)
  • "The White House," he said, "has never been occupied by better representatives of the bourgoise [sic] or citizen class of people, than it will be after the 4th proximo.†   (source)
  • I canna fathom why he would be doing sic a thing, for the first one that had sought to go with Galahad was Uwaine, Sir Galahad refused it!†   (source)
  • The time is in the hands of mighty men to whom you are like the single item in the mind of the chief of a great Sears, Roebuck Company, and here come you, wishing to do right and not lead a disappointed life (sic!)†   (source)
  • I number them so that I can refer back to them when necessary: (1) I am not, indeed, sure whether it is not true to say that the Milton who once seemed not unlike a seventeenth-century Shelley had not become, out of an experience ever more bitter in each year, more alien (sic) to the founder of that Jesuit sect which nothing could induce him to tolerate.†   (source)
  • Governor Pickens of South Carolina was notified that an attempt would be made to supply Fort Sumter "with provisions only," and not with arms, and was advised by Lincoln that "if such an attempt be not resisted, no effort to throw in men, arms, or ammunition will be made without further notice, or [sic] in case of an attack upon the fort."†   (source)
  • Ye must forget sic things.†   (source)
  • In the new law courts—for Fort Mayne was over—the lawyers were as busy as bees, issuing writs for attainder, chancery, chevisance, disseisin, distraint, distress, embracery, exigent, fieri facias, maintenance, replevin, right of way, oyer and terminer, scot and lot, Quorum bonorum, Sic et non, Pro et contra, Jus primae noctis, and Questio quid juris?†   (source)
  • Maybe you can sic it on any bug—cure any germ disease by it.†   (source)
  • What do you want me to do down there for{sic}?†   (source)
  • Daae life{sic}her eyes to the sky and stretch out her arms as though in ecstasy.†   (source)
  • But Christian{sic}had slammed the door at the moment when Raoul was on the point of rushing out.†   (source)
  • Pathfinder, ye'll no' be exposing Mabel, pretty Mabel Dunham, to sic' a calamity!†   (source)
  • He had come from Switzerland, where he had just undergone a successful course of treatment for idiocy (SIC!)†   (source)
  • The stage-manager walked away, shrugging his shoulders, fuming, muttering insults at those milksops who remained quietly squatting in a corner while the whole theater was topsyturvy{sic}.†   (source)
  • Then the candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: "Sic transit gloria mundi."†   (source)
  • Panem depsticium sic facito.†   (source)
  • "I will na believe such calumny of the leddies, nor sic' a reproach on my own skill," returned the Quartermaster, growing more and more Scotch as he warmed with his feelings; "it's a conspiracy to rob a meritorious man of his dues."†   (source)
  • Then heard he a voice say Galahad, I see there environ about thee so many angels that my power may not dere thee{sic}Right so Sir Galahad saw a body all armed lie in that tomb, and beside him a sword.†   (source)
  • Go /right/ along, and take the first turning (/sic/) on the /right/, and you are /right/ there.†   (source)
  • But even Marsh expressed the hope that Americans would not, "with malice prepense, go about to republicanize our orthography and our syntax, our grammars and our dictionaries, our nursery hymns (/sic/) and our Bibles" to the point of actual separation.†   (source)
  • I looked for the lamp which she told me came into his mind but merely as a passing fancy of his because he then recollected the morning littered bed etcetera and the book about Ruby with met him pike hoses (sic) in it which must have fell down sufficiently appropriately beside the domestic chamberpot with apologies to Lindley Murray.†   (source)
  • In addition, Thornton added a provisional class of "words and phrases of which I have found earlier examples in American than in English writers; ...with the /caveat/ that further research may reverse the claim"—a class offering specimens in /alarmist/, /capitalize/, /eruptiveness/, /horse of another colour/ (/sic!†   (source)
  • [41] "When we remember," says the New International Encyclopaedia[42] "that the dialects of the countries (/sic/) in England have marked differences—so marked, indeed that it may be doubted whether a Lancashire miner and a Lincolnshire farmer could understand each other—we may well be proud that our vast country has, strictly speaking, only one language.†   (source)
  • sir," replied Benjamin, "Non si male nunc et olim sic erit.†   (source)
  • To attempt to describe this noise to those who have heard it would be in vain; and to aim at giving any idea of it to those who have never heard the like, would be still more vain: for it may be truly said— —Non acuta Sic geminant Corybantes aera.†   (source)
  • Then heard he a voice say Galahad, I see there environ about thee so many angels that my power may not dere thee{sic}Right so Sir Galahad saw a body all armed lie in that tomb, and beside him a sword.†   (source)
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