stigmatizev.
/ˈstɪɡmətʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈstɪɡməˌtaɪz/ 1.
a. transitive. To mark with a ‘stigma’ or brand; to brand; also to tattoo. Now rare.Very frequent in the 17th cent., with reference to the then common punishment of branding.
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society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > be distinctive mark on [verb (transitive)] > put identifying mark on > brand as token of infamy or subjection
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1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xxvi. 145 Amongst them [the Thracians] it was esteemed a faire and noble thing to haue the forhead stigmatized.
1637 Brief Relat. Bastwick etc. 15 Mr. Prynne to be stigmatized in the Cheekes with two Letters (S & L) for a Seditious Libeller.
1737 T. Stackhouse New Hist. Bible (1744) I. i. iv. 132 God stigmatized him on the forehead with a letter of his own name.
1784 Acts & Laws Connecticut 8 Both of them shall be..stigmatized, or burnt on the Forehead with the Letter A, on a hot Iron.
1818 tr. G. Buchanan in Hist. Picts in Miscellanea Scotica I. 68 The Picts marked their skins with iron, and stigmatised them with pictures of divers animals.
1848 A. Herbert in Todd's Irish Nennius Notes p. lxi I..prefer the supposition, that [these persons] were..simply painted..and not stigmatized.
b. transferred. To mark with a stain, scar, or blemish.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > stain
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depaintc1374
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blotc1440
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thorough-stain1593
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tattoo1774
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a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady iii. iv. 16 in Wks. (1640) III But my clothes To be defac'd, and stigmatiz'd so foulely!
1705 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. ii. 19 An ill-look'd, thin-jaw'd Calves-head Rabble, All stigmatiz'd with Looks like Jews.
1893 Scribner's Mag. Sept. 287 The crimson panes like blood-drops stigmatize The western floor.
c. Pathology. To mark or affect with stigmata; to produce stigmata upon: see stigma n. 4 (Chiefly in past participle)
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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [verb (transitive)]
note1607
insignate1653
stigmatize1822
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 683 Freckles. Cuticle stigmatised with yellowish-brown dots.
1899 Hutchinson's Arch. Surg. X. 179 She..[was] freckled and stigmatised.
d. To mark with the stigmata: see stigma n. 3.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [verb (transitive)] > mark with stigmata
stigmatize1844
1844 Faber Sir Lancelot (1857) 97 Francis..stigmatized in fashion as his Lord.
1872 D. H. Tuke Illustr. Infl. Mind upon Body 83 M. Maury states that Ursula Aguir..experienced every Friday severe pain in the place where, in a vision, she had been stigmatised.
e. To imprint as a brand (literal or figurative). rare.
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society > communication > indication > marking > marking to identify > be distinctive mark on [verb (transitive)] > put identifying mark on > imprint as a brand
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stigmatize1644
1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 7 Not to suffer the ordinance of his goodnes and favour, through any error to be ser'd and stigmatiz'd upon his servants to their misery and thraldome.
1647 R. Stapleton in tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 267 Letters stigmatized in Slaves foreheads.
1822 [implied in: J. M. Good Study Med. II. 570 The stigmatised and pathognomic dots. (at stigmatized adj. c)].
2.
a. figurative. To set a stigma upon; to mark with a sign of disgrace or infamy; to ‘brand’; esp. to call by a disgraceful or reproachful name; to characterize by a term implying severe censure or condemnation.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > make infamous [verb (transitive)] > brand with infamy
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1619 J. Taylor Kicksey Winsey sig. A7 A second Edition..wherein I will Satyrize, Cauterize, and Stigmatize all the whole kennell of curres.
1668 A. Cowley Liberty in Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 82 They..stick not to commit actions, by which they are more shamefully and more lastingly stigmatized.
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 78. ⁋12 One of the most striking passages..stigmatizes those as fools who complain that [etc.].
1816 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. (ed. 3) I. App. iii. ii. 532 These arts, by assisting..to stigmatize every improper idiom, tend to give greater precision..to our style.
1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose x, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 231 We dare not stigmatize Argyle with poltroonery—for [etc.].
1840 W. Irving Sketches in Paris in Knickerbocker Mag. Nov. 429 As to their white wines, he stigmatizes them as mere substitutes for cider.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 261 He must be stigmatized as ignorant, even though he be skilful in calculation.
b. Said of the ‘brand’ or mark (cf. stigma n. 2b).
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1647 in J. Cleveland Poems (new ed.) in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4666) 53 A stigmatizing brand of Infamie.
1650 J. Hall Paradoxes 57 It was..the first brand that stigmatized them after their fall.
1809 T. Campbell Gertrude of Wyoming iii. viii Thy beloved heart..Would feel like mine the stigmatising brand!
1883 J. Parker Apostolic Life II. 198 I am not going to..fasten upon you some stigmatising term.
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