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. 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.
10. 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