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Stigmatic geometry

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.