stigmatized, ppl. a.
(ˈstɪgmətaɪzd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
Marked with a stigma (lit. or fig.); branded; marked with infamy, severely censured.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. vi. 135 Let them be proued, perjured, stigmatized, convict roagues, theeues, traitors. 1657 N. Billingsley Brachy-Martyrol. xi. 36 To multiply their fame, And not as markes of stigmatized shame. 1828 P. Cunningham N.S. Wales II. 124 Doomed to be, like the seed of Cain, a stigmatised race. 1850 M{supc}Crie Mem. Sir A. Agnew ii. 35 In these days sympathy with the slave was a rare and stigmatized thing. |
b. Marked with the stigmata: see stigma 3.
| 1841 Earl of Shrewsbury Let. to A. L. Phillipps 44 The spiritual condition of stigmatized persons. 1872 Tuke Illustr. Infl. Mind upon Body 83 The flux of the Stigmata upon Fridays has been verified also in the case of..the Stigmatised of the Tyrol. |
c. Path. Impressed as a stigma: see stigma 4.
| 1822–29 Good's Study Med. III. 27 The stigmatised and pathognomonic dots. |