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stigmatic

American  
[stig-mat-ik] / stɪgˈmæt ɪk /

adjective

  1. Also stigmatical. pertaining to a stigma, mark, spot, or the like.

  2. Botany. pertaining to or having the character of a stigma.

  3. Optics. converging to a point; anastigmatic.


noun

  1. a person marked with supernatural stigmata.

stigmatic British  
/ stɪɡˈmætɪk /

adjective

  1. relating to or having a stigma or stigmata

  2. another word for anastigmatic

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

  1. RC Church a person marked with the stigmata

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of stigmatic

1585–95; < Medieval Latin stigmaticus, equivalent to stigmat- (stem of stigma stigma ) + -icus -ic


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In theory, this stigmatic psychological injury is the same, in the inverse, as one of the rationales the court in 1954 offered in its opinion in Brown v.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2023

The sisters’ mission statement is “the expiation of stigmatic guilt and the promulgation of universal joy,” but since their inception, they’ve been called diabolical and anti-Catholic and accused by their detractors of mocking Catholic nuns.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2023

They are the same privacy and stigmatic harms that the government routinely imposes—and which federal courts routinely authorize the government to impose—on countless people whose property is seized and searched when warrants are executed.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2022

But Crabtree said the aggrieved group and individuals didn’t say how they were directly harmed by the standards, other than asserting an “abstract stigmatic injury” that isn’t enough to sustain a lawsuit.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 2, 2014

Ovary 2-celled, one of the cells smaller and disappearing; styles 2, thread-form, stigmatic down the inside.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray

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