GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

last match results

Found one definition 

  1.       

    Visitation , n. [L. visitatio: cf. F. visitation.]
    1.  The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination.
      1913 Webster
      Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.
      Shak.

      1913 Webster
    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.
      1913 Webster
    3. The object of a visit. [Obs.] “O flowers, . . . my early visitation and my last.” 
      Milton.

      1913 Webster
    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.
      1913 Webster
    5. Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.
      1913 Webster
      What will ye do in the day of visitation?
      Isa. x. 3.

      1913 Webster
    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.
      1913 Webster
      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.
      1913 Webster

Last match results