Initialism of School Improvement Council.
"The principal asked every teacher to attend the upcoming meeting organized by the school's sic."
In plain English: Sic is an old Latin word used to show that a mistake was written on purpose by the author and not made by someone else correcting it later.
"The editor added sic to show that the error was in the original text and not introduced during proofreading."
To mark with a bracketed sic.
"The owner shouted at his neighbor's golden retriever to sic it on the intruder before the animal lunged forward."
To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs.
In plain English: To sic someone is to release an animal, usually a dog, so it can attack another person or animal.
"The teacher told his student to sic the dog on anyone who stole their frisbee."
Usage: Use "sic" only when quoting someone else's writing to show you are preserving their original spelling errors; do not use it to mean "thus" in your own sentences. When adding this word, always enclose the specific error or phrase within square brackets immediately before it.
intentionally so written (used after a printed word or phrase)
"The editor left the misspelling in the manuscript sic to show that it was an error made by the original author, not introduced during proofreading."
Thus; thus written; used to indicate, for example, that text is being quoted as it is from the source.
"The editor added a note saying sic after misspelled words in the original document to show they were typed exactly as they appeared."
In plain English: Sic is used to show that an error was intentionally kept because it reflects what someone actually wrote or said originally.
"She was annoyed that he sic'd his dog on the neighbor's cat again."
The word sic is a learned borrowing from the Latin sīc, which means "thus" or "so." It was originally used to indicate that a quoted passage should be taken exactly as written.