Definitions
intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase)
Word origin
Learned borrowing from Latin sīc (“thus, so”).
Used in a sentence
“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.]”
“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).”
“whole bussiness: Quoted sic in George F. Willison, Saints and Strangers (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1945)”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Attack, as a dog”3 letters
02“Thus, used in quotations”3 letters
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