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& 8. [STIGMATIC.] stig-ma-tist, 8. [STIGMA.] One on whom stigmata, or the marks of Christ's wounds, are said to be supernaturally impre ed. stig-ma-ti-zā -tion, stig-ma-ti-sā'-tion, subst [Eng. stigmatiz ( e ); -ation.] Eccles. & Church Hist.: The appearance or impre ion of counterparts of all or some of the wounds received by Jesus in His Pa ion, in their appropriate positions on the human body. The first case on record, and the most important is that of St. Francis of A isi, the founder of the Francis cans. It is said that, while the saint was engaged in a fast of forty days on Mount Alvernus, in the year 1224, a crucified seraph with six wings appeared and discoursed to him of heavenly things. Francis fainted, and on recovering consciousne , found himself marked with the wounds of crucifixion in his hands, his feet, and right side. Thomas à Celana and St. Buonaventura attested the case, and Pope Alexander IV. (1254-1261) claimed to have seen the stigmata during the lifetime of St. Francis and after his death. A feast of the Stigmata of St. Francis is celebrated in the Roman Church on Sept. 17. The Do mini cans claimed a similar dis tinct i on for a saint of their Order (St. Catherine of Siena, 1347-80), and the fact of her stigmatization is recorded in the fifth lection of the office of her feast (April 30) in the Roman Breviary. She is honored with a special feast in her own Order, though she is never represented in painting or sculpture with the stigmata. Since then many persons have claimed to have received these marks of divine favor. [See extract under STIGMATA, II. 4.] There is an excellent account of one of the latest cases-that of a Belgian peasant woman, Louise Lateau-in Mac mill an's Magazine , April, 1871. Carpenter ( Mental Physiol., ed. 4th, § 541) sees nothing either incredible or miraculous in these cases. "The subjects have been persons of strongly emotional temperament, who fell into a state of profound reverie, in which their minds were wholly engro ed by the contemplation of their Savior's sufferings, with an intense direction of their sympathetic attention to his several wounds; and the power which this state of mind would have on the local action of the corresponding of their own bodies gives a definite physiological rationale for what some persons accept as genuine miracles and others repudiate as the tricks imposture." stig-ma-tize, stig'-ma-tişe, v . t . [Fr. stigma tiser=to brand with a hot iron, to defame publicly, from Gr. stigmatizō =to mark or brand, from stigma (gen it. stigmatos )=a mark, a prick, a brand, from stizō -to prick.] *stike, v . t . [STICK, v.] in syphilis. boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; stile *stil-bā'-çe-i, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. stilb (um); Lat. masc. pl. adj. suff. -ace i .] Bot. An obsolete sub-order of Hyphomycetous Fungals, having a wart-shaped receptacle composed of conjoined filamentous or hexagonal cells and spores, borne singly on the apices of free filaments. They grow on decaying animal or vegetable matter, or on bark or leathery leaves. stil-bē, s. [Gr. stilbe = a lamp, from stilbo = to glitter, to shine.] Botany: The typical genus of Stilbacese (q. v.). Flowers in straight flowering spikes; corolla lobes narrow. Known species four, from the Cape. stil-bene, stil-bin, s. [Gr. stilbe = luster, and Eng. ben (zen)e.] Chemist.: C14H12=C6H5 CH.CH C6H5. Picramyl. Toluylene. Prepared by pa ing the vapor of toluene over heated plumbic oxide, or by the action of sodium on benzoic aldehyde. It crystallizes in thin, colorle plates, having a mother-of-pearl luster, is insoluble in water, soluble in boiling alcohol, melts at 115°, and boils at 306°. Heated with hydriodic acid, it is converted into dibenzyl. stilbene-oxide, s. Chem.: C7H6O. Laurent's name for oil of bitter almonds. stilbene-peroxide, 8. [STILBOUS-ACID.] stil-bě-sic, adj . [Gr. stilbe = luster; s connect., and suff.-ic.] Derived from or containing stilbene. stilbesic-acid, s . Chemistry: C28H1007(9). Obtained by pa ing chlorine gas into crude bitter-almond oil, pre ing the product between paper, and washing with a mixture of ether and alcohol. It crystallizes in monoclinic prisms, is very slightly soluble in alcohol and ether, but soluble in alcoholic ammonia, and melts at 105°. stil-bi-a, 8. [STILBUM.] Entom.: The typical genus of Stilbide (q. v.). stil-bic, a. [Eng. stilb (ene); -ic.] Chem.: A term sometimes used as a synonym of Benzilic (q. v.). stil-bid, s. [Mod. Lat. stilbe, and Greek eidos = form.] Botany (pl.): Lindley's name for the Stilbacee (q. v.).