Stigmata Definition

stigmätə, stigmətə
stigma
noun
Marks resembling the crucifixion wounds of Jesus, appearing on some devout persons in a state of intense religious fervor.
Webster's New World

Stigma.

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(religion, Christianity) Bodily marks or sores, corresponding in location to the crucifixion wounds of Christ, supposed to occur during states of religious ecstasy or hysteria.

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Origin of Stigmata

  • From Ancient Greek στίγμα (stigma, “brand"). Nominative plural: στίγματα (stigmata).

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Stigmata Sentence Examples

  • If for no other reason than the prominent place they hold in art, it would not be right to pass by the Stigmata without a special mention.

  • The meeting of the coxae of all the prosomatic limbs in front of the pentagonal sternum; the space for a genital operculum; the pair of pectens, and the absence of any evidence of pulmonary stigmata are noticeable in this specimen.

  • Respiratory organs in the form of tracheal tubes opening by a pair of stigmata in the 2nd and 3rd somites of the opisthosoma.

  • Respiratory organs tracheal, opening by a pair of stigmata situated immediately behind the basal segments of the 6th pair of appendages on what is probably the sternum of the 2nd opisthosomatic somite and also in some cases upon the 5th segment of the legs.

  • Tracheae typically opening by stigmata situated in the articular sockets (acetabula) of the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th pairs of appendages.

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