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Entry 6 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Stigmatic

· Stig·mat·ic · IPA /stɪɡˈmætɪk/
01 n. A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.
  1. 1.
    A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.[R.]
  2. 2.
    A person who is marked or deformed by nature.
  3. 3.
    A person bearing the wounds on the hands and feet resembling those of Jesus Christ caused by His crucifixion; -- for true stigmantics the wounds are supposed to have been caused miraculously, as a sign of great holiness.
02 a. Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
  1. 1.
    Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
  2. 2.
    Impressing with infamy or reproach.[R.]
  3. 3.
    Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.(Bot., Anat., etc)
Phrases & compounds
Stigmatic geometry — that science in which the correspondence of index and stigma (see Stigma, 7) is made use of to establish geometrical proportions.