stigmatic meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

stigmatic

adj

/stɪɡˈmætɪk/

Etymology From stigma + -ic.

Anatomy, Biology, Botany, Medicine, Natural sciences, Sciences Having or relating to a stigma or stigmata.

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

Impressing with infamy or reproach.

Derived terms: nonstigmatic, parastigmatic, pseudostigmatic, pterostigmatic, stigmatically, tristigmatic

noun

Etymology From stigma + -ic.

One who has been branded as punishment.

from his Infancy branded for a stigmatick1685, Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England:

One who has been marked or deformed by nature.

But like a foul misshapen stigmatic,c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 136:

One who displays stigmata, the five wounds of Christ.