Visitation definitions Webster's 1828 Dictionary VISITA'TION, n. [L. visito ... 1. The act of visiting. Nothing but peace and gentle visitation. 2. Object of visit. My early visitation and my last. [Unusual.] 3. In law, the act of ... and regulations are duly observed and executed. In England, the visitation of the diocese belongs to the bishop; parochial visitation belongs peculiarly to the archdeacons. 4. In Scripture, and in ... called visitations. What will ye do in the day of visitation? Isaiah 10. 5. Communication of divine love; exhibition of ...
The Order of the Visitation of Our Lady definitions Webster's 1913 Dictionary Visitation Vis`it*a"tion, n. [L. visitatio: cf. F. visitation.] 1. The act of visiting, or the state of being ... access for inspection or examination. Nothing but peace and gentle visitation. --Shak. 2. Specifically: The act of a superior or superintending ... 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.'' --Milton. 4. (Internat. Law) The act ...
conjugal visitation definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the legal ... the inmate and spouse to have sexual intercourse [syn: conjugal visitation right, conjugal visitation]
conjugal visitation right definitions WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) n 1: the ... the inmate and spouse to have sexual intercourse [syn: conjugal visitation right, conjugal visitation]
... a place 3. an official or professional call or tour ; visitation 4. the act of a naval officer in boarding a ... a chat. Phrases and idioms: right of visit = right of visitation (see VISITATION). Derivatives: visitable adj. Etymology: ME f. OF visiter or L ... to view or inspect; an official or formal inspection; examination; visitation; as, the visit of a trustee or inspector. Right of visit (Internat. Law), the right of visitation. See Visitation, 4. Webster's 1913 Dictionary Visit Vis"it, v. ...
... calamity, the loss of God, has not fallen. Thus the visitation is set in a religious light: the graphic description is ... say: a time of continued drought combined with an unprecedented visitation of locusts gives occasion to the prophet to call his ... that he uses the expression twice in connection with the visitation of the locust (1:15; 2:1), once after speaking ... approach of the day of the Lord with a heavy visitation upon material nature, precisely as the simple Oriental of the ... day, on the occurrence of an eclipse, or at a visitation of locust or pestilence, begins to talk of the end ... 10:4 ff. Joe had, no doubt, seen many a visitation of locusts; but what we have before us in ...
... this insect, _arbeh_, points to the "multitudinous" character of this visitation. Warning was given before this plague came. (9.) After a ... 4, 5; 12:29,30). The exact time of the visitation was announced, "about midnight", which would add to the horror ... diverse kinds can carry germs of the disease. A third visitation fell on the spies who brought back an evil report ... try the patience, tuberculosis, tweak the nose, urge, vex, vexation, visitation, watch, wheedle, white plague, woe, work on, worry
... great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague" [syn: trial, tribulation, visitation] Merriam Webster's noun Etymology: Middle English tribulacion, from Anglo ... trial, trials and tribulations, trouble, troubles, vale of tears, vicissitude, visitation
... to view or inspect; an official or formal inspection; examination; visitation; as, the visit of a trustee or inspector. Right of visit (Internat. Law), the right of visitation. See Visitation, 4.
... great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague" [syn: trial, tribulation, visitation] Merriam Webster's I. noun Etymology: Anglo-French, from trier ... vale of tears, venture, venturesome, verification, verificatory, vexation, vexatiousness, vicissitude, visitation, viva, warm-up, whack, whirl, willing, woe, worriment, worry, written ...
... Merriam Webster's adjective Date: 1688 of or relating to visitation or to a judicial visitor or superintendent Oxford Reference Dictionary adj. of an official visitor or visitation. Etymology: ult. f. L visitare (see VISIT) Webster's 1913 ... temporarily put in place of another.] Of or pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial. An archdeacon has ...
... a. [See Deacon.] Pertaining to an archdeacon; as an archidiaconal visitation. WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005) adj 1: of or relating ... This offense is liable to be censured in an archidiaconal visitation. --Johnson.
... or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation. The flax and the barly was smitten. --Ex. ix. 31 ... or vigor of, as by a stroke or by some visitation. The flax and the barly was smitten. --Ex. ix. 31 ...