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sic 1 Adverb thus: inserted in brackets in a text to indicate that an odd spelling or reading is in fact what was written, even though it is or appears to be wrong [Latin] sic 2 Verb [sicking, sicked] 1. to attack: used only in commands to a dog 2. to urge (a dog) to attack (someone) [dialect variant of seek]
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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. Bernard saith, non est jam dicere, ut populus sic sacerdos; quia nec sic populus ut sacerdos. 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 |
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