stigmatic

From stigma + -ic.

• IPA^(key): /stɪɡˈmætɪk/

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stigmatic (not comparable)

1. (botany, anatomy) Having or relating to a stigma or stigmata.
2. Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character; stigmatized.
3. Impressing with infamy or reproach.

stigmatic (plural stigmatics)

1. One who has been branded as punishment.
   • 1685, Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England:

     from his Infancy branded for a stigmatick

2. One who has been marked or deformed by nature.
   • 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:

     But like a foul misshapen stigmatic,

3. One who displays stigmata, the five wounds of Christ.

Borrowed from French stigmatique. By surface analysis, stigmat +‎ -ic.

stigmatic m or n (feminine singular stigmatică, masculine plural stigmatici, feminine/neuter plural stigmatice)

1. stigmatic