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/vˌɪzətˈeɪʃən/ /vˌɪzɪtˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Visitation n.

1.

The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination. "Nothing but peace and gentle visitation."

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."

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?"

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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"Visitation" Quotes from Famous Books

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— Why and how: a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada • Addie Chisholm

... which thus brought her gracious visitation on him unaware, he hastened down with Tressilian, to whose eventful and interesting story he had ...

— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

... he sent. Dupas to Lubeck. That city, which was poorer than Hamburg, suffered cruelly from the visitation of ...

— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

... young white women, all of them of unusual beauty? The conclusion was forced upon us, and with it the whole affair took on a complexion shudderingly sinister. It was not a mere panic of the people with which Bermuda now had to cope—not merely an unexplainable supernatural visitation, harmless enough, save that it was terrorizing. This was a menace. Something which had to ...

— The White Invaders • Raymond King Cummings

... the Old World by its military power, and shock them by its profligacy, whereof the Ostend Circular and the murders and forgeries of Kansas were but foretastes, until God in His righteous wrath should bring upon it some visitation like the present, and hurl it from its pinnacle in mercy ...

— The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

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