stig·mat·ic
stig-ˈma-tik
plural stigmatics
: a person marked with stigmata : a person with bodily marks or pains resembling the wounds of the crucified Jesus
The monk, a "Friar G.," is a stigmatic (who bleeds with the wounds of Jesus) with a cult following in Italy.—Joseph P. Szimhart
called also stigmatist
1
: having or conveying a social stigma (see stigma sense 1a)
… the event is an opportunity for people to debunk the stigmatic social narrative that addiction has anything to do with morality.—Lisa Vidaurri Bowling
2
: of or relating to the stigma of a flower (see stigma sense 2a)
While in most flowering plants the stigma is open to direct contact with the air and visiting insects, the five receptive stigma surfaces in milkweeds are enclosed within five stigmatic chambers, open to the world only through the narrow slit.—Craig Holdrege
3
religion
: of or relating to stigmata (see stigma sense 3a)
The walls also display pictures of Audrey with priests who have visited. But most arresting is another display on the wall that contains Audrey's pink rosary beads, a tissue touched by her tears, and a handkerchief stained by blood from her stigmatic wounds.—Mathew N. Schmalz
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