Obs. rare. Anglicized form of STIGMA: in quots., in senses 1 and 2.
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 92. Ȝe schal not prik ȝor flesch, ne mak to ȝow ani figeris, ne stigmes, þat are woundis.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., I. iv. § 1 (1622), 20. None … haue … branded any nation with the marke and stigme of Atheisme.
