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A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment. [R.] Bullokar.

Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.

With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.

One believed to be supernaturally impressed with the marks of Christ's wounds. See Stigma, 8.

The act of stigmatizing.

To mark with a stigma, or brand; as, the ancients stigmatized their slaves and soldiers. That . . . hold out both their ears with such delight and ravishment, to be stigmatized and bored through in witness of their own voluntary and beloved baseness. Milton.

Same as Stigmatic.

Divination by writing on the bark of a tree.

Pertaining to, or depended upon, the order or arrangement of strata; as, stratigraphical evidence. -- Strat`i*graph"ic*al*ly, adv.

That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement and succession of strata.

Stiff; stretched; strained. [Obs.] Johnson.

Any one of numerous species of Hemiptera belonging to Tettigonia and allied genera; a leaf hopper.

Having, or consisting of, three stigmas. Gray.

Indefatigable. [Obs.] "Undefatigable pains." Camden.

To make less tight or tense; to loosen.

Turned round; giddy. [R.] Coleridge.

Turning round; whirling; rotary; revolving; as, vertiginous motion. Some vertiginous whirl of fortune. De Quincey.

Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.

To investigate. [Obs.]

by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains; as, the vestiges of ancient magnificence in Palmyra; vestiges of former population. What vestiges of liberty or property have they left Burke. Ridicule has followed the vestiges of Truth, but never usurped her place. Landor.…