Visitable to Vitrificate
Visitable
(Vis"it*a*ble) a. Liable or subject to be visited or inspected. "All hospitals built since the Reformation
are visitable by the king or lord chancellor." Ayliffe.
Visitant
(Vis"it*ant) n. [L. visitans, - antis; p. pr.: cf. F. visitant.] One who visits; a guest; a visitor.
When the visitant comes again, he is no more a stranger.
South. Visitant
(Vis"it*ant), a. Visiting. Wordsworth.
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.
Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.
Shak. 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." Milton.
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?
Isa. x. 3. 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.
Visitatorial
(Vis`it*a*to"ri*al) a. [Cf. LL. visitator a bishop temporarily put in place of another.] Of or
pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial.
An archdeacon has visitatorial power.
Ayliffe.
The queen, however, still had over the church a visitatorial power of vast and undefined extent.
Macaulay. Visite
(Vi*site") n. [F. See Visit, n.] A light cape or short cloak of silk or lace worn by women in summer.
Visiter
(Vis"it*er) n. A visitor.
Visiting
(Vis"it*ing), a. & vb. n. from Visit.
Visiting ant. (Zoöl.) See Driver ant, under Driver. — Visiting book, a book in which a record of
visits received, made, and to be made, is kept. Thackeray. — Visiting card. See under Card.
Visitor
(Vis"it*or) [Cf. F. visiteur.] [Written also visiter.]
