subs. (old).—1. A branded criminal; (2) anyone deformed; and (3) a contemptible wretch.
1598. SHAKESPEARE, 2 Henry IV., ii. 2. 136. But, like a foul, mis-shapen STIGMATIC.
1601. MUNDAY and CHETTLE, The Death of Robert Earle of Huntingdon, iv. 2.
| That prodigious bloody STIGMATIC … portendeth still | |
| Some innovation or some monstrous act. |
1616. T. SCOTT, Philomythie [NARES].
| Convaide him to a justice, where one swore, | |
| He had been branded STIGMATIC before. |
