'Visitation' definitions:
Definition of 'visitation'
From: WordNet
noun
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" [syn: trial, tribulation, visitation]
noun
Any disaster or catastrophe; "a visitation of the plague"
noun
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"
Definition of 'Visitation'
From: GCIDE
- Visitation \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. [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]
Synonyms of 'visitation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abdominal epilepsy,
- access,
- acquired epilepsy,
- activated epilepsy,
- affect epilepsy,
- affliction,
- akinetic epilepsy,
- apoplexy,
- arrest,
- attack,
- autonomic epilepsy,
- bane,
- blight,
- blockage,
- bugbear,
- burden,
- calamity,
- call,
- calling,
- calvary,
- cardiac epilepsy,
- cataclysm,
- catastrophe,
- clonic spasm,
- clonus,
- convulsion,
- cortical epilepsy,
- cramp,
- cross,
- crucible,
- crushing burden,
- curse,
- cursive epilepsy,
- death,
- destruction,
- disaster,
- disease,
- diurnal epilepsy,
- duty visit,
- eclampsia,
- epilepsia,
- epilepsia gravior,
- epilepsia major,
- epilepsia minor,
- epilepsia mitior,
- epilepsia nutans,
- epilepsia tarda,
- epilepsy,
- evil,
- examination,
- falling sickness,
- fit,
- focal epilepsy,
- formal visit,
- frenzy,
- grand mal,
- grievance,
- harm,
- haute mal,
- hysterical epilepsy,
- ictus,
- infliction,
- inspection,
- Jacksonian epilepsy,
- larval epilepsy,
- laryngeal epilepsy,
- laryngospasm,
- latent epilepsy,
- lockjaw,
- mad round,
- matutinal epilepsy,
- menstrual epilepsy,
- mischance,
- musicogenic epilepsy,
- myoclonous epilepsy,
- nemesis,
- nocturnal epilepsy,
- occlusion,
- open wound,
- ordeal,
- overhaul,
- overhauling,
- paroxysm,
- perlustration,
- perusal,
- pest,
- pestilence,
- petit mal,
- physiologic epilepsy,
- plague,
- psychic epilepsy,
- psychomotor epilepsy,
- punishment,
- quality control,
- reflex epilepsy,
- required visit,
- review,
- Rolandic epilepsy,
- rotatoria,
- run-through,
- running sore,
- scan,
- scourge,
- scrutiny,
- seizure,
- sensory epilepsy,
- serial epilepsy,
- social call,
- social round,
- social whirl,
- sojourning,
- spasm,
- staying,
- stoppage,
- stroke,
- study,
- survey,
- tardy epilepsy,
- tetanus,
- tetany,
- thorn,
- throes,
- thromboembolism,
- thrombosis,
- tonic epilepsy,
- tonic spasm,
- torment,
- torsion spasm,
- tragedy,
- traumatic epilepsy,
- trial,
- tribulation,
- trismus,
- ucinate epilepsy,
- vexation,
- visit,
- visiting,
- woe
Words containing 'Visitation'
- Visit,
- Visitable,
- Visitant,
- Visite,
- Visited,
- Visiter,
- Visiting,
- Domiciliary visit,
- Right of visit,
- Visiting ant,
- Visiting book,
- Visiting card,
- conjugal visitation,
- flying visit,
- site visit,
- visit upon,
- visitation right,
- visiting fireman,
- visiting nurse,
- visiting professor,
- A Visit from St Nicholas,
- Carte de visite,
- Cartes de visite,
- The Order of the Visitation of Our Lady,
- conjugal visitation right