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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Stigmatize \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.
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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.
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2. To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of
reproach or infamy.
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To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized.
--Addison.
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