adjective / noun
stigmatic
Bearing or relating to marks resembling Christ's wounds.
The painting depicts a stigmatic saint with wounds on his hands.
Etymology
Greek stigma means a mark, with stigmat- as its stem. The religious adjective concerns the marks identified with Christ’s wounds.
More examples
- The physician examines the stigmatic marks on her palms.
- The book describes several stigmatics and their reported experiences.
- Pilgrims visit the village to meet a local stigmatic.
Forms
stigmatic · stigmatics
stigmata noun — Marks resembling the wounds of Christ.