sic Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb urge to attack someone
    set.
    • The owner sicked his dogs on the intruders
    • the shaman sics sorcerers on the evil spirits
  2. adverb intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase)

WordNet

Sic adjective
Definitions
  1. Such. Scot.
Sic adverb
Etymology
L.
Definitions
  1. Thus. ✍ 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.

Webster 1913