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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Relating to, resembling, or having stigmata or a stigma.
  2. adj. Anastigmatic.
  3. n. A person marked with religious stigmata.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Of or pertaining to a stigma, in any sense of that word. Specifically— Having the character of a brand; ignominious.
  2. Marked with or as with a stigma or brand; repulsive; abhorrent.
  3. In natural history, belonging to or having the character of a stigma; stigmal.
  4. In botany, receptive of pollen: said of parts of the style which have the function without the form of stigma, as the “silk” of maize.
  5. Bearing the stigmata; stigmatized. See stigma, 5.
  6. n. A person who is marked with stigmata, in the ecclesiastical or the pathological sense; a stigmatist.
  7. n. A criminal who has been branded; one who bears upon his person the marks of infamy or punishment; a notorious profligate.
  8. n. One on whom nature has set a mark of deformity.
  9. Possessing a stigma; stigmatose: said of angiosperms as contrasted with gymnosperme and perhaps in other connections.
  10. In photography, pertaining to or of the character of a stigmat or anastigmat, a combination of lenses corrected for astigmatism.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. botany, anatomy Having a stigma or stigmata.
  2. adj. Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
  3. adj. Impressing with infamy or reproach.
  4. n. One who has been branded as punishment.
  5. n. One who has been marked or deformed by nature.
  6. n. One who displays stigmata, the five wounds of Christ.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. rare 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. adj. Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
  4. adj. rare Impressing with infamy or reproach.
  5. adj. (Bot., Anat., etc) Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ)
  2. adj. not astigmatic
  3. adj. pertaining to or resembling or having stigmata
  4. adj. pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images)

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