| n. | 1. | A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment. | |||
| 2. | A person who is marked or deformed by nature. | ||||
| 3. | 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. | ||||
| a. | 1. | Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character. | |||
| 2. | Impressing with infamy or reproach. | ||||
| 3. | (Bot., Anat., etc) Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.
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| Noun | 1. | stigmatic - a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) Synonyms: stigmatist |
| Adj. | 1. | stigmatic - pertaining to or resembling of having stigmata |
| 2. | stigmatic - pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images) Synonyms: anastigmatic | |
| 3. | stigmatic - not astigmatic Synonyms: anastigmatic |
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