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 Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutA festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July.
visitation
visitatorial \vis`it*a*to"ri*al\ (?), a. [cf. ll. visitator a bishop temporarily put in place of another.] of or pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial. an archdeacon has visitatorial power. the queen, however, still had over the church a visitatorial power of vast and undefined extent.
similar words(1)
the order of the visitation of our lady
Gofwy = n. a visit, a visitation
Gofwyad = n. visitation
Ymweliad = n. a 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
Visitation Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Visitation may refer to:
In history:
In history:
- Heraldic visitation, tours of inspection to establish the right of a person to bear arms, and are used today in genealogical research.
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Visitation Definition from Law Dictionaries & Glossaries
A formal visit by one in authority for enforcement of law.
The act of examining into the affairs of a corporation.
The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and eleemo-synary corporations. The visitation of civil corporations is by the government itself, through the medium of the courts of justice.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
Courtesy of the 'Lectric Law Library.The act of examining into the affairs of a corporation.
The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and eleemo-synary corporations. The visitation of civil corporations is by the government itself, through the medium of the courts of justice.
This entry contains material from Bouvier's Legal Dictionary, a work published in the 1850's.
the right of the parent who does not have physical custody to see his or her child.
Grandparents have visitation rights in all 50 states. These rights generally do not cover non-biological descendants, i.e., adopted grandchildren or biological grandchildren given up for adoption.
Pursuant to stipulation, agreement, or court order, visits of unemancipated children with their non-custodial parent. Visits are supervised by a responsible adult when the non-custodial parent is accused of child abuse or neglect.
Grandparents have visitation rights in all 50 states.
Pursuant to stipulation, agreement, or court order, visits of unemancipated children with their non-custodial parent. Visits are supervised by a responsible adult when the non-custodial parent is accused of child abuse or neglect.
