Stigmatic /(?)/
Stig·mat·ic
Stigmatic
n.
- A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment. [R.]
- A person who is marked or deformed by nature.
- 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.
Stigmatic
a.
- Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
- Impressing with infamy or reproach. [R.]
- 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.