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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Stigmatized

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Stigmatizing

[F.

stigmatiser

, Gr. [GREEK].]

To mark with a stigma, or brand;

as, the ancients

stigmatized

their slaves and soldiers

That . . . hold out both their ears with such delight and ravishment, to be

stigmatized

and bored through in witness of their own voluntary and beloved baseness.

Milton.

To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of reproach or infamy.

To find virtue extolled and vice

stigmatized

Addison.

, v.t.

To mark with a brand; in a literal sense; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.

To set a mark of disgrace on; to disgrace with some not of reproach or infamy.

To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized--

Sour enthusiasts affect to stigmatize the finest and most elegant authors, ancient and modern, as dangerous to religion.