Thesaurus: stigmatic

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1. n. A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.
2. n. A person who is marked or deformed by nature.
3. n. 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.
4. a. Alt. of Stigmatical
5. adj. pertaining to or resembling or having stigmata
6. adj. pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images)
7. adj. not astigmatic
8. n. a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ)
9. 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. 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.
10. Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata. Stigmatic geometry,or Stigmatics, that science in which the correspondence of index andstigma (see Stigma, 7) is made use of to establish geometricalproportions.
11. n. a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ) a. pertaining to or resembling or having stigmata