About The Word Visitation
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Visitation Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Visitation?
[n] 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"
[n] any disaster or catastrophe; "a visitation of the plague" [n] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Visitation: trial | tribulation Related Terms | Find terms related to Visitation: See Also | affliction | calamity | cataclysm | catastrophe | disaster | fire | tragedy | visit Visitation In Webster's Dictionary \Vis`it*a"tion\, n. [L. visitatio: cf. F.
visitation.]
1. The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access
for inspection or examination.
Nothing but peace and gentle visitation. --Shak.
2. 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.
3. The object of a visit. [Obs.] ``O flowers, . . . my early
visitation and my last.'' --Milton.
4. (Internat. Law) 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.
5. Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and
goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance;
retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.
What will ye do in the day of visitation? --Isa. x.
3.
6. (Eccl.) A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin
Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated
on the second of July.
{The Order of the Visitation of Our Lady} (R. C. Ch.), a
religious community of nuns, founded at Annecy, in Savoy,
in 1610, and in 1808 established in the United States. In
America these nuns are devoted to the education of girls.
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