Thus; as written;used to indicate, for example, thattext is beingquoted as it is from thesource.
1909 January 28, H. E. Wilkie Young, “Notes on the City of Mosul” (despatch No. 4), inForeign Office, volume195, number2308; quoted in Elie Khadouri[e], “Mosul in 1909”, inMiddle Eastern Studies[1], volume 7, number 2,1971,→JSTOR, page229:
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.
2003, Monika Fludernik,The Fictions of Language and the Languages of Fiction,Routledge,→ISBN, page468:
Bolinger, Dwight (1977) ‘Pronoun and repeated nouns.’Lingua18:1-34 [Quotedsic in Toolan 1990. Neither in Lingua 18, nor in the 1977 volume of that journal.]
2006, Christina Scull with Wayne G. Hammond,JRR Tolkien companion & guide, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,→ISBN:
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).
2010, Paul Booth,Digital Fandom: New Media Studies, Peter Lang,→ISBN, page127:
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...[allsic]
2012, Milton J. Bates,The Bark River Chronicles: Stories from a Wisconsin Watershed, Wisconsin Historical Society,→ISBN, page271:
whole bussiness: Quotedsic in George F. Willison, Saints and Strangers (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1945)
2019 April 12, Paul P. Murphy and Samira Said, “Louisiana arson suspect expressed disgust with Baptist churches on Facebook”, inCNN[2]:
In the posting, Matthews said he wished that, “more blacks [sic] people would look into ancient beliefs of pre Christian Africa.”
1979 December 29, Vern Hall-Smith, “Fundamentalists March”, inGay Community News, volume 7, number23, page 5:
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.
Sic is frequently used to indicate that an error or apparent error of spelling, grammar, or logic has been quoted faithfully; for instance, quoting theU.S. Constitution:
The House of Representatives shall chuse [sic] their Speaker ...
Sic is often set off from surrounding text by parentheses or brackets, which sometimes enclose additional notes, as:
1884, James Grant,Cassell’s old and new Edinburgh, page99:
This I may say of her, to which all that saw her will bear record, that her only countenance moved [sic, meaning that its expression alone was touching], although she had not spoken a word[…]
Because it is not an abbreviation, it does not require a following period.
1887 May 7,E. Belfort Bax, “On Some Forms of Modern Cant”, inCommonweal[3]:
The fact is, of course, that the modern reviewer’s taste is not really shocked by half the things hesics or otherwise castigates, but he must find something to say and above all make a slow of purism.
Sic is frequently used to indicate that an error or apparent error of spelling, grammar, or logic has been quoted faithfully. In Flanders, it is also used to quote derogatory terms in a formal context.
‘Ik heb begrepen dat ik “geoordeeld” (sic) zal worden door de geschiedenis, ik veronderstel dat we dat allemaal ooit zullen ondergaan.’- French-speaking journalist Alexandre Penasse is quoted by newspaper De Standaard making a mistake against the Dutch language, as it is clear from the context that he meant “veroordeeld”. 19/02/2022.
“Thus, in this way it pleases me to pass beneath the shadows.” (Dido’s final words include the doubly emphatic “sic, sic”; translations vary.Servius the Grammarian, in hisCommentary on the Aeneid of Vergil, understood it as the moment Dido falls upon the sword of Aeneas.)
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894),Latin Phrase-Book[6], London:Macmillan and Co.
that is the way of the world; such is life:sic vita hominum est
the facts are these; the matter stands thus:res ita est, ita (sic) se habet
convince yourself of this; rest assured on this point:sic habeto
convince yourself of this; rest assured on this point:sic volo te tibi persuadere
to represent a thing dramatically:sic exponere aliquid, quasi agatur res (non quasi narretur)
anger is defined as a passionate desire for revenge:iracundiam sic (ita) definiunt, ut ulciscendi libidinem esse dicant orut u. libido sit oriracundiam sic definiunt, ulc. libidinem
I felt quite at home in his house:apud eum sic fui tamquam domi meae (Fam. 13. 69)
sic inRamminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)),Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[7], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Sihler, Andrew L. (1995),New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press,→ISBN
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It is generally agreed thatNorth Sea Germanic languages, including Anglo-Saxon, lost all trace of the Proto-West Germanic third person reflexive pronoun*sik before the historical period. The citation above, therefore, may represent a sole attestation of the reflexive pronoun, or may otherwise possibly be a misinterpretation of the meaning ofsig.
I'd gie my ſhoon frae aff my feet, / To taſteſic fruit, I ſwear, man. / Syne let us pray, auld England may / Sure plant this far-famed tree, man; / And blythe we'll ſing, and hail the day / That gave us liberty, man.
