\Stig"ma*tize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Stigmatized}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Stigmatizing}.] [F. stigmatiser, Gr. ?.]
1. 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.
2. To set a mark of disgrace on; to brand with some mark of
   reproach or infamy.
         To find virtue extolled and vice stigmatized.
                                               --Addison.