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sic

Abbreviation (Latin ‘thus’, ‘so’) sometimes found in brackets within a printed quotation to show that the original has been quoted accurately even though it contains an apparent error (‘she wrote threatening to charge me with assult and batery [sic] if I did not apologize’).



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The said Earl thinking himself greater than any king in those quarters, determined to have that whole benefice (as he hath divers others) to pay at his pleasure ; and because he could not find sic security as his insatiable appetite required, this shift was devised.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
Bernard saith, non est jam dicere, ut populus sic sacerdos; quia nec sic populus ut sacerdos.
The Essays by Bacon, Sir Francis View in context
If I had kent of these reefs, if I had had a chart, or if Shuan had been spared, it's not sixty guineas, no, nor six hundred, would have made me risk my brig in sic a stoneyard
Kidnapped by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
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