Stigmatic

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:26:18

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.

 

© Webster 1913.


Stig*mat"ic (?), Stig*mat"ic*al (?), a. [See Stigma.]

1.

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

2.

Impressing with infamy or reproach.

[R.]

3. Bot., Anat., etc

Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.

Stigmatic geometry, ∨ Stigmatics, that science in which the correspondence of index and stigma (see Stigma, 7) is made use of to establish geometrical proportions.

 

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