Stig'ma-tize, v. t.

v. t. [imp. & p. p. STIGMATIZED; p. pr. & vb. n. STIGMATIZING.] [Fr. stigmatiser, Gr. στιγματίζειν.] 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 disgrace with some note of reproach or infamy. “To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized.” Addison.