Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STIG'MA-TIZE, v.t. [Fr. stigmatiser.]

1. To mark with a brand; in a literal sense; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers.
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. Some enthusiasts street to stigmatize the finest and most elegant authors, ancient and modern, as dangerous to religion. – Addison.