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visitation
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visitation
n.
visit, act of visiting; instance of a divorced parent spending legally granted time with his children; official inspection or examination; affliction or punishment by god; appearance of an apparition
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Visitation
Visitation may refer to:
In history:
In history:
- Heraldic visitation, a tour of inspection by a herald (or other officer-of-arms) to regulate and register coats of arms, and to record pedigrees
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visitation
Noun
1. an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague"
(synonym) trial, tribulation
(hypernym) affliction
(hyponym) fire
(derivation) inflict, bring down, visit, impose
2. any disaster or catastrophe; "a visitation of the plague"
(hypernym) calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
(derivation) visit
3. an official visit for inspection or supervision; "the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations"; "the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese"
(hypernym) visit
(derivation) visit, inspect
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visitation
nf.
visitation, visit
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Visitation
(n.)
The object of a visit.
The object of a visit.
(n.)
The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination.
The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination.
(n.)
The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually coupled with the right of search (see under Search), visitation being used for the purpose of search.
The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually coupled with the right of search (see under Search), visitation being used for the purpose of search.
(n.)
Specifically: The act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc., to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed; as, the visitation of a diocese by a bishop.
Specifically: The act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc., to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed; as, the visitation of a diocese by a bishop.
(n.)
Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.
Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.
(n.)
A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July.
A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July.
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