siccing

Verb (1)

sic (third-person singular simple present sics, present participle siccing, simple past and past participle sicced)

1. To mark with a bracketed sic.
   • The fact is, of course, that the modern reviewer’s taste is not really shocked by half the things he sics or otherwise castigates, but he must find something to say and above all make a slow of purism.1887 May 7, E. Belfort Bax, “On Some Forms of Modern Cant”, in Commonweal

Verb (2)

sic (third-person singular simple present sics, present participle siccing, simple past and past participle sicced)

1. (transitive) To incite an attack by, especially a dog or dogs.
   • He sicced his dog on me!
2. (transitive) To set upon; to chase; to attack.
   • Sic ’em, Mitzi.

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