An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
STIGMATIC
anastigmatic, stigmatic
(adjective) not astigmatic
anastigmatic, stigmatic
(adjective) pertaining to a lens or lens system free of astigmatism (able to form point images)
stigmatic
(adjective) pertaining to or resembling or having stigmata
stigmatic, stigmatist
(noun) a person whose body is marked by religious stigmata (such as marks resembling the wounds of the crucified Christ)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
stigmatic (comparative more stigmatic, superlative most stigmatic)
(botany, anatomy) Having a stigma or stigmata.
Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
Impressing with infamy or reproach.
Noun
stigmatic (plural stigmatics)
One who has been branded as punishment.
One who has been marked or deformed by nature.
One who displays stigmata, the five wounds of Christ.
Source: Wiktionary
Stig*mat"ic, n.
1. A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment. [R.] Bullokar.
2. A person who is marked or deformed by nature. Shak.
Stig*mat"ic, Stig*mat"ic*al, a. Etym: [See Stigma.]
1. Marked with a stigma, or with something reproachful to character.
2. Impressing with infamy or reproach. [R.]
3. (Bot., Anat., etc)
Definition: Of or pertaining to a stigma or stigmata. Stigmatic geometry, or Stigmatics, that science in which the correspondence of index and stigma (see Stigma, 7) is made use of to establish geometrical proportions.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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