stigmatic

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  • Noun:
    a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ)
  • Adjective:
    pertaining to or resembling of having stigmata
    pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images)
    not astigmatic

Word Origin

stigmatic (adj.)
c. 1600, from Medieval Latin stigmaticus, from stigmat-, stem of Greek stigma (see stigma), + -ic. Related: Stigmatical (1580s).

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