Dictionary entry

Stigmatize

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Stig″ma‐tize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Stigmatized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Stigmatizing (?).] [F. stigmatiser, Gr. �.] 1. 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.

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

To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized. Addison.