VISITATION
\vˌɪzɪtˈe͡ɪʃən], \vˌɪzɪtˈeɪʃən], \v_ˌɪ_z_ɪ_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of VISITATION
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The object of a visit.
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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.
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Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.
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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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The object of a visit.
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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.
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Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.
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A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of going or coming to see; a lengthy or tiresome visit; a special dealing out of divine punishment or reward.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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The act or fact of visiting; a visit.
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An official inspection.
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A divine dispensation.
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Visitor.
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Visitorial.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. Act of visiting, or the state of being visited; — a judicial inspection and examination, as by a bishop in his diocese, or by commissioners appointed to report on the state of Colleges, schools, hospitals, or other public institutions; — in scripture, the divine act of sending afflictions, distresses, calamities, on men, to punish them for their sins or to prove them;—also, communication of divine favour and goodness.
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