stigmate, n. Now rare.
(ˈstɪgmət)
Only in pl. Also 4–5 stygmate, 7 stigmatte, 7–9 stigmat.
[pl. stigmates ad. L. stigmata pl. of stigma. Cf. F. stigmate.]
1. = stigma 3.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VIII. 525 She had the stygmates in her handes and feete and side. 1483 Caxton Golden Leg. 314 b, Whan he hadde praid..Saynt fraunceis by his holy Signes and Stygmates he was..delyueryd of his payne. 1610 tr. Bonaventure's Life St. Francis xvi. 170 Graced and adorned with the Sacred Stigmattes of our Lord. 1686 W. Aglionby Painting Illustr. 141 A Saint Francis in Fresco, who receives the Stigmats upon his Knees. 1839 A. L. Phillipps tr. Montalembert's St. Eliz. Hungary p. xxvii, Those five bright and glorious stigmats, which..he [St. Francis] had received. |
b. A mark as of a wound or puncture, a scar.
| 1861 J. H. Bennet Shores of Mediterr. iii. xv. (1875) 545 So severely bitten [by ants] that it took weeks to efface the stigmates. |
† 2. A mark of correction or annotation in a book or manuscript. Obs.
| 1583 Fulke Def. Answ. Pref. 73 The Bible printed at Antwerpe,..where the margents..be full of diuerse readings, obeliskes, asterisks, stigmates. |
Hence ˈstigmated a., marked with the stigmata.
| 1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle L. 158 The joy..with which those crossed and stigmated hands [in the badge of the Franciscan monasteries] are welcomed by the traveller. |