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Sic   /sɪk/   Listen
adverb
Sic  adv.  Thus. Note: This word is sometimes inserted in a quotation (sic), to call attention to the fact that some remarkable or inaccurate expression, misspelling, or the like, is literally reproduced.



adjective
Sic  adj.  Such. (Scot.)






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"Sic" Quotes from Famous Books



... sic a thing," cried Andie. "It is the story of my faither (now wi' God) and Tod Lapraik. And the same in your beard," says he; "and keep the tongue of ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson

... a winter-flood in August; the rushes with which our bottomless chairs were to have been bottomed, and much hay, which was not carried, are gone down the river on a voyage to Ely, and it is even uncertain whether they will ever return. Sic transit gloria mundi! ...
— Cowper • Goldwin Smith

... constitution is one of the most carefully prepared, well digested instruments of the kind ever produced, very full in all needed provisions for the adminstration [tr. note: sic] of the affairs of the congregation, and pervaded by a devout spirit; sound in the faith and watchful of the life of Pastors, Officers and members. It well deserves the prominent place it holds among the sources of Lutheran organization in ...
— The Organization of the Congregation in the Early Lutheran Churches in America • Beale M. Schmucker

... foeno cubantem Piis foveamus amplexibus: Sic nos amantem quis non redamaret? Venite, adoremus, Venite, adoremus, Venite, ...
— The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book • Various

... bairnies,' quo' the mother then, 'That I have kist sae aft, Canna we save them frae their death, But sic a ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 • Various


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