01 v. t. To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
imp. & p. p.
Stigmatized; p. pr. & vb. n.
Stigmatizing
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To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.“That . . . hold out both their ears with such delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored through in witness of their own voluntary and beloved baseness.” — Milton.
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To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.“To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized.” — Addison.