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stigmatic

 

  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Stigmatic  \Stig*mat"ic\,  Stigmatical  \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},  or  {Stigmatics},  that  science  in  which 
  the  correspondence  of  index  and  stigma  (see  {Stigma},  7) 
  is  made  use  of  to  establish  geometrical  proportions. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  stigmatic 
  adj  1:  pertaining  to  or  resembling  of  having  stigmata 
  2:  pertaining  to  a  lens  or  lens  system  free  of  astigmatism 
  (able  to  form  point  images)  [syn:  {anastigmatic}] 
  n  :  a  person  whose  body  is  marked  by  religious  stigmata  (such  as 
  marks  resembling  the  wounds  of  the  crucified  Christ) 
  [syn:  {stigmatist}]




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