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Sic

adverb
1.
Intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase).
verb
(past sicced; past part. sicced or sicked; pres. part. siccing or sicking)
1.
Urge to attack someone.  Synonym: set.  "The shaman sics sorcerers on the evil spirits"






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... pro quolibet mahemio ad amissionem testiculorum vel oculorum convictum coudemnare, sed non sine errore, eo quod id judicium nisi in corruptione virginum lantum competebat; nam pro virginitatis corruptione solebant abscidi et merito judicari, ut sic pro membro quod abstulit, membrum per quod deliquit amitteret, viz. lesticulos, qui calorem stupri induxerunt,' &c. Fleta. L. 1. c. 40. Sec. 4. 'Gif theow man theowne to nydhffimed genyde, gabete mid his eowende: Si servus servam ad sfuprum coegerit, compenset hoc virga sua virili. Si quis pnellam,' ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

... O Horsemen, and this song is uttered; Accept the skilful[sic] poem, manly heroes. These prayers, to you belonging, have ascended, O all ye gods protect us aye ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins

... the mother then, 'That I have kist sae aft, Canna we save them frae their death, But sic a ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 • Various

... The causes of atheism are: divisions in religion, if they be many; for any one main division, addeth zeal to both sides; but many divisions introduce atheism. Another is, scandal of priests; when it is come to that which St. Bernard saith, non est jam dicere, ut populus sic sacerdos; quia nec sic populus ut sacerdos. A third is, custom of profane scoffing in holy matters; which doth, by little and little, deface the reverence of religion. And lastly, learned times, specially with peace ...
— Essays - The Essays Or Counsels, Civil And Moral, Of Francis Ld. - Verulam Viscount St. Albans • Francis Bacon

... work of the first sowers; as is shown in several places of his history by father Fray Gaspar de San Agustin; [39] and that lover of truth, father Fray Francisco de San Antonio confesses it, thus honoring as he ought the Augustinian Hiermo [sic]. The island of Mindoro also shared in this good fortune. In its cultivation were employed fathers Fray Francisco de Ortega and Fray Diego de Moxica. They, after having founded the village of Baco, endured innumerable misfortunes in a painful captivity, ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 41 of 55, 1691-1700 • Various


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