sicin a sentencegrouped by contextual meaning
sic as in: "feel grate" (sic)
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The quick response came in the form of Twitter message condemning "amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants while the American people struggle to make ends meat (sic)."
sic = indicates that a word or phrase that looks incorrect, is quoted accurately (in this case, meat should be meet.)
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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
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"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
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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)
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"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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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)
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Disinterested, disjoin—Where's disipline [sic]? (source)
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"Once I dreamed," declared a little boy, "that I was captured by cannon balls [sic]." (source)
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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)
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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
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Hwo (sic) did this to me?† (source)
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At 8:30 P.M. [sic] Mr. Evans was administered a second thirty-second jolt of electricity.† (source)
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Sic your cripple on me?† (source)
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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)
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sic as in: sic the dog
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Stay back or I'll sic my dog on you.sic = urge attack of
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She can sic an army of lawyers on you.
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She was arrested for siccing her dog on an unarmed man.siccing = urging attack of
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Wait until I'm in the arena and sic starving wild animals on me. (source)sic = to instruct an animal to attack
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Whatever I say, one or the other of you is going to sic the dog on me. (source)sic = urge attack of
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Sic 'em, Petunia! (source)Sic = attack
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It's like siccing a python on a bunny rabbit and then being angry when the bunny rabbit loses.† (source)
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And Granmère sicced him on me!† (source)
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I know about for-EN-sics!'† (source)
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"Sic semper tyrannis!" he thundered.† (source)
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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)
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I stopped my ears and sicced the dogs on him.† (source)
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You better look out, Pervert, or I'll sic my dog on you.† (source)
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That's 'sic semper tyrannis.'† (source)
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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)
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rare meaning
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Sic semper cum Frogs. (source)Sic = sic semper is a Latin phrase that means thus always
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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"
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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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BELLEROSE (solemnly): Sic transit!
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Sic = “Sic transit” is short for the Latin phrase “Sic transit gloria mundi,” which means "Thus passes the glory of the world." Today, someone might express the sentiment by saying, "All good things must come to an end."
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