[f. assumed Gr. *στιγματισμός, f. στιγματίζειν to STIGMATIZE.]
† 1. Branding; collect. marks made by branding, or by tattooing or the like. Obs.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 360. No Pagan could buy nor sell, unless he had some such sacred Stigmatism upon his body.
2. Path. The condition of being affected with stigmata (see STIGMA 4).
1900–13. Dorland, Med. Dict.
3. Absence of astigmatism. [Cf. STIGMATIC A. 9.]
1890. G. M. Gould, New Med. Dict., Stigmatism, a condition of the refractive media of the eye in which rays of light from a point are accurately brought to a point on the retina. Synonymous with emmetropia.
