sic
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
homophone: sick
homophone: Sikh (one pronunciation)
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin sīc (“thus, so”).
Senses: examples: text: When it is all over they merge and go in a body to visit [...] the Telegraph Office – with plausible expressions of regret and excuses for the mob ‘which’ they say ‘is deplorably ignorant and will not be restrained when its feelings are strongly moved’ – sic, the fact being that the mob’s feelings will never be ‘moved’ unless it is by one of them.
ref: 1909 January 28, H. E. Wilkie Young, “Notes on the City of Mosul” (despatch No. 4), in Foreign Office, volume 195, number 2308; quoted in Elie Khadouri[e], “Mosul in 1909”, in Middle Eastern Studies, volume 7, number 2, 1971, →JSTOR, page 229:
text: Bolinger, Dwight (1977) ‘Pronoun and repeated nouns.’ Lingua18:1-34 [Quoted sic in Toolan 1990. Neither in Lingua 18, nor in the 1977 volume of that journal.]
ref: 2003, Monika Fludernik, The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction, Routledge, →ISBN, page 468:
text: Joseph Wright, his predecessor in the chair, called him ‘a firstrate Scholar and a kind of man who will easily make friends’ at Oxford (quoted, sic, in E.M. Wright, The Life of Joseph Wright (1932), p. 483).
ref: 2006, Christina Scull with Wayne G. Hammond, JRR Tolkien companion & guide, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN:
text: Jim’s Interests: General: Working out, hanging out at the local bars, expanding my mind, eating Tuna Sandwhiches...or so I’m told and poker... Television: ... this show that’s on Thuresday nights at 8 :30pm... I can’t place the name of it but it has this crazy interview style thing...[all sic]
ref: 2010, Paul Booth, Digital Fandom: New Media Studies, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 127:
text: whole bussiness: Quoted sic in George F. Willison, Saints and Strangers (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1945)
ref: 2012, Milton J. Bates, The Bark River Chronicles: Stories from a Wisconsin Watershed, Wisconsin Historical Society, →ISBN, page 271:
text: In the posting, Matthews said he wished that, “more blacks [sic] people would look into ancient beliefs of pre Christian Africa.”
ref: 2019 April 12, Paul P. Murphy and Samira Said, “Louisiana arson suspect expressed disgust with Baptist churches on Facebook”, in CNN:
glosses: Thus; as written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source.
examples: text: In the past few months, we in Upstate N.Y. have been subjected to fire bombings, firings, verbal and physical harassment, etc. The list goes on and on. These (sic) Christians are calling for a million marchers and may very well get that many.
ref: 1979 December 29, Vern Hall-Smith, “Fundamentalists March”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 23, page 5:
glosses: Used in the manner of scare quotes
Related terms: english: used to note the error and supply the supposed intended phrasing
translation: used to note the error and supply the supposed intended phrasing
word: sic pro
english: used to indicate that the preceding word, phrase, or term is used in the same manner (or form) throughout the remainder of a text
translation: used to indicate that the preceding word, phrase, or term is used in the same manner (or form) throughout the remainder of a text
word: sic passim
english: so passes the glory of the world; fame is temporary; lit.
translation: so passes the glory of the world; fame is temporary; lit.
word: sic transit gloria mundi
english: thus always to tyrants; and shouted by John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln
translation: thus always to tyrants; and shouted by John Wilkes Booth after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln
word: sic semper tyrannis