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astigmatism
coined (in form
astigmatic
) 1849 by the Rev. William Whewell (1794–1866), Eng. polymath, from Gk.
a-
"without" +
stigmatos
gen. of
stigma
"a mark, spot, puncture" (see
stick
(v.)).
