adverb, verb
adverb (from Latin) written after a word that you have copied from somewhere, to show that you know that the word is wrongly spelled or wrong in some other way:
In the letter to parents it said: 'The school is proud of it's [sic] record of excellence'.
verb (-cc-) [VN] (AmE, informal) to attack sb:
Sic him, Duke! (= said to a dog)
PHRASALVERBS
sic sth on sb (informal) to tell a dog to attack sb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for sic is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does sic appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — sic appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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