stigmatic, a. and n.
(stɪgˈmætɪk)
[ad. med.L. stigmaticus (occurring in some MSS. of Cic. De Off. ii. 7. 25, where the true reading is stigmatias), f. L. stigmat-: see stigma and -ic. Fr. has stigmatique in sense 6 (Littré).
In early use sometimes accented ˈstigmatic: cf. ˈheretic.]
A. adj.
1. Constituting or conveying a stigma; branding with infamy; ignominious; severely condemnatory.
| 1607 Heywood Wom. killed w. Kindn. (1617) C 4, Print in my face The most stigmaticke title of a villaine. a 1631 Donne Ignat. Conclave (1634) 17 Hee..imprinted the names of Antichrist, Iudas, and other stigmatique markes vpon the Emperour. 1870 Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 311 The application of any such stigmatic phrase to the work of Webster is absurd. 1876 ― Note Eng. Repub. 10 Cruelty in Ireland, cruelty in Jamaica, cruelty in the plantation, cruelty in the jail, each of these in turn has naturally provoked the stigmatic brand of his approbation. |
† 2. Marked with a ‘stigma’ or brand, branded.
In quot. 1602 app. humorously used in reference to an academic degree or distinction; cf. B. 1.
| 1602 2nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. i. iv. 437 Any of those Stigmatick maisters of arte, that abused vs in times past. 1628 Coke On Litt. 158 If the Iuror bee..adiudged..to be branded, or to be stigmatique. |
† 3. Marked with or having a deformity or blemish; deformed, ill-favoured, ugly. Obs. (or rare arch.)
| 1597 Drayton Heroical Ep., John to Matilda 116 Hospitalls..for the crook'd, the hault, the stigmatick. 1601 R. Yarington Two Lament. Trag. iv. vi. in Bullen O. Pl. IV. 73 A loathsome toade, A one eyde Cyclops, a stigmaticke brat. 1609 Heywood Brit. Troy viii. ix. 171 The Muse hath made him Stigmaticke and lame. 1637 ― Dialogues xvii. Annot. V 5, A Proverbe..Thersite fœdior, asperst upon any stigmatick, and crooked fellow. 1827 Lamb Sir Jeffery Dunstan in Hone's Every-day Bk. II. 843 But some little deviation from the precise line of rectitude might have been winked at in so tortuous and stigmatic a frame. |
4. Pertaining to or accompanying the stigmata (see stigma 3).
| 1871 G. E. Day in Macm. Mag. Apr. 490, I shall now take up the history of the stigmatic bleedings, which..occur every Friday. 1882–3 Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2248 It may be said that ‘stigmatic neuropathy’ is a pathological condition..explicable by physical and mental conditions. |
5. Path. Pertaining to or characterized by a stigma or stigmata (see stigma 4).
| 1898 Syd. Soc. Lex. |
6. Zool. Pertaining to or having the nature of a stigma or breathing-pore.
| 1835 J. Duncan Beetles (Nat. Libr.) 133 In order to bring the stigmatic openings in contact with the air, they [water-beetles] are obliged from time to time to repair to the surface. 1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vii. 435 The stigmatic openings are usually situated upon the side of the abdomen. |
7. Bot. Pertaining to, constituting, or having the character of a stigma: see stigma 6. In quot. 1902, having a stigma, stigmatiferous.
| 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 19 The pollen..shed upon the stigmatic surface. 1882 Vines tr. Sachs' Bot. 351 Hepaticæ... The primary stigmatic cell divides into the five or six stigmatic cells of the neck. 1902 Oliver tr. Kerner's Nat. Hist. Plants I. 741 If..the pollen should fall..to the ground, it would..be lost..and neither..winds nor..insects would be able to carry it..to the stigmatic flowers. |
8. Geom. Pertaining or relating to the points called stigmata: see stigma 7, and B. 4 below.
| 1863 [see B. 4]. 1875 T. Hill True Order Studies 53 Hamilton's Quaternions, and Ellis's Stigmatic Geometry. |
9. [Back-formation from astigmatic by omission of the privative prefix: thus etymologically equivalent to anastigmatic, in which the prefix is repeated. Cf. stigmat.] Applied to a photographic lens or combination of lenses constructed so as to correct the astigmatic aberration.
| 1896 Brit. Jrnl. Photogr. 1 May 280 The simplest form of a stigmatic lens consists of a glass plate with parallel plane sides. 1902 Encycl. Brit. (ed. 10) XXXI. 696/1 A..new type of anastigmatic objective..was brought out..by Messrs. Dallmeyer, under the name of ‘Stigmatic’. 1902 Westm. Gaz. 12 May 4/2 The various models of stigmatic lenses with which the photographer is becoming somewhat bewildered... In practical photography..a good rapid rectilinear lens answers the purpose..and in nine cases out of ten the fine points of a stigmatic are wasted. |
B. n. [ellipt. use of the adj.]
† 1. A person branded as a criminal; a profligate, villain. Obs. (or rare arch.)
In quot. 1597 app. humorously used for a person marked with an academic distinction: cf. A. 2.
| 1597 Pilgr. Parnass. ii. 217 An ould drousie Academicke, an old Stigmatick, an ould sober Dromeder. 1600 Sir J. Oldcastle v. x. 112 Foule stigmatike, Thou venome of the country. 1642 Consid. Duties Prince & People 10 He himselfe the reproach of Soveraignty, and an infamous stigmatique to all posterity. 1856 C. R. Kennedy Demosthenes III. 46 Some too that are slaves and stigmatics [Gr. µαστιγίας]. |
† 2. A person marked with some physical deformity or blemish. Obs.
| 1594 1st Pt. Contention H 2, Foule Stigmaticke [said to Richard ‘Crookback’]. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Pet. i. 4. 80 Be not then married to the world, its a mishapen stigmaticke. |
3. A person marked with the stigmata (see stigma 3).
| 1885 Times 16 Dec. 5/2 He appeared at Paris..accompanied by his sister, Patrocinio, the famous stigmatic. |
4. Geom. The aggregate of the curves traced by the points called stigmata (stigma 7); in pl. stigmatic geometry: see quot.
| 1863 A. J. Ellis in Proc. Roy. Soc. XII. 442 The theory of stigmatics. An index point, supposed to move from any origin into every point on a plane, is accompanied by one or more satellite points, termed stigmata... The locus of the stigmata, corresponding to each path of the index, forms a stigmatic curve. The aggregate of these curves constitutes a stigmatic. 1875 T. Hill True Order Studies 162 Elements of more modern inventions, quaternions, stigmatics, &c. |
5. Photogr. A stigmatic lens or objective.
| 1902 [see A. 9]. |