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A person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ)
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stigmatic
Word definitions for stigmatic in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context botany anatomy English) Having a stigma or stigmata. 2 Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character. 3 Impressing with infamy or reproach. n. 1 One who has been branded as punishment. 2 One who has been marked or deformed ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from Medieval Latin stigmaticus , from stigmat- , stem of Greek stigma (see stigma ), + -ic . Related: Stigmatical (1580s).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stigmatic \Stig*mat"ic\, n. A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment. [R.] --Bullokar. A person who is marked or deformed by nature. --Shak.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. pertaining to or resembling of having stigmata pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) [syn: anastigmatic ] not astigmatic [syn: anastigmatic ] [ant: astigmatic ] n. a person whose body is marked by religious ...
Usage examples of stigmatic.
On the other hand, I have found by experiment that the fertility of clover greatly depends on bees visiting and moving parts of the corolla, so as to push the pollen on to the stigmatic surface.
How strange that the pollen and stigmatic surface of the same flower, though placed so close together, as if for the very purpose of self-fertilisation, should in so many cases be mutually useless to each other!