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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. Thus; so. Used to indicate that a quoted passage, especially one containing an error or unconventional spelling, has been retained in its original form or written intentionally.
  2. v. To set upon; attack.
  3. v. To urge or incite to hostile action; set: sicced the dogs on the intruders.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. A Scotch form of such.
  2. So; thus: a word often inserted within brackets in quoted matter after an erroneous word or date, an astonishing statement, or the like, as an assurance that the citation is an exact reproduction of the original: as, “It was easily [sic] to see that he was angry.”
  3. A call to pigs or to sheep.
  4. See sick.
  5. n. An abbreviation of Sicilian
  6. n. of Sicily.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. thus; thus written
  2. v. transitive To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs.
  3. v. transitive To set upon; to chase; to attack.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Scot. Such.
  2. adv. Thus.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. urge to attack someone
  2. adv. intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase)

Etymologies

  1. Variant of seek. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin sīc. Dialectal variant of seek. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. such
  1. thus

hypernyms (4)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. assault
  1. assail
  1. attack
  1. Seton

same context (13)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. vel
  2. alter
  1. anima
  2. arborea
  1. itur
  2. canis
  1. consuli
  2. anno
  1. moror
  2. esto
  1. cayman
  2. placide
  1. talentum

rhymes (56)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Crick
  2. Dick
  3. Frick
  4. Hick
  5. Mick
  6. Nic
  7. Nick
  8. Rick
  9. Slick
  10. Stick
  11. Vic
  1. Vik
  2. blick
  3. brick
  4. chick
  5. click
  6. crick
  7. dick
  8. fick
  9. flick
  10. frick
  11. gick
  1. glick
  2. handpick
  3. hick
  4. kick
  5. klick
  6. knick
  7. lick
  8. mic
  9. mick
  10. nic
  11. nick
  1. nonstick
  2. pic
  3. pick
  4. pik
  5. prick
  6. quick
  7. realpolitik
  8. ric
  9. rick
  10. schtick
  11. shtick
  1. sick
  2. slick
  3. spic
  4. stick
  5. strick
  6. thick
  7. tic
  8. tick
  9. trick
  10. vic
  11. wick
  1. wicke

reverse dictionary (5)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. sick
  1. Carborundum
  1. sool
  1. silicon carbide
  1. sic

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  1. latin
  1. thus or so

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  • yarb "She's probably sicced the pols and nats both on me."

    - P.K. Dick, Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said. Mar 25, 2012

  • dontcry "Mommy, I feel sic...hooooork." Jul 27, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi Caesar sic in omnibus. Jul 27, 2009

  • chained_bear Sic semper tyrannis. Jul 27, 2009

  • PossibleUnderscore Sic transit gloria mundi. Jul 27, 2009

  • amacleod03 (verb) To urge or incite to hostile action, as in siccing dogs upon someone. In a metaphoric sense, any time someone is ordered to go after another. There is an implication that the purpose is to do harm to the object of siccing, not simply to dissuade or drive off. Jul 26, 2009

  • mikeropology I lub sic this word! Nov 29, 2007

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