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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STIGMATIC, STIGMATICAL

a. 1. Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
2. Impressing with infamy or reproach.

 

STIGMATIC

n. 1. A notorious profligate, or criminal who has been branded. [Little used. ]
2. One who bears about him the marks of infamy or punishment. [Little used. ]
3. One on whom nature has set a mark of deformity. [Little used. ]

 

STIGMATICALLY

adv. With a mark of infamy or deformity.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

STIGMATIC

STIGMATIC Stig *mat "ic, n.

 

1. A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment. [R.] Bullokar.

 

2. A person who is marked or deformed by nature. Shak.

 

STIGMATIC; STIGMATICAL

Stig *mat "ic, Stig *mat "ic *al, a. Etym: [See Stigma. ]

 

1. Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.

 

2. Impressing with infamy or reproach. [R.]

 

3. (Bot. , Anat. , etc )

 

Defn: Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata. Stigmatic geometry, or Stigmatics, that science in which the correspondence of index and stigma (see Stigma, 7 ) is made use of to establish geometrical proportions.

 

STIGMATICALLY

STIGMATICALLY Stig *mat "ic *al *ly, adv.

 

Defn: With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

stigmatic

stig mat ic |stigˈmatik stɪɡˈmædɪk | adjective 1 of or relating to a stigma or stigmas, in particular constituting or conveying a mark of disgrace. 2 another term for anastigmatic. noun a person bearing stigmata. DERIVATIVES stig mat i cal ly |-ik (ə )lē |adverb ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense (person ) marked with a blemish or deformity ): from Latin stigma, stigmat- + -ic .

 

Oxford Dictionary

stigmatic

stig |mat ¦ic |stɪgˈmatɪk | adjective 1 relating to a stigma or stigmas, in particular constituting or conveying a mark of disgrace: the less stigmatic offence of manslaughter. 2 another term for anastigmatic. noun a person bearing stigmata. DERIVATIVES stigmatically adverb ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense (person ) marked with a blemish or deformity ): from Latin stigma, stigmat- + -ic .