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visitation
(mass) | visitation
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visitation
(encz) | visitation,návštěva n: Zdeněk Brož |
Visitation
(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.
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Nothing but peace and gentle visitation. --Shak.
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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.
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3. The object of a visit. [Obs.] "O flowers, . . . my early
visitation and my last." --Milton.
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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.
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5. Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and
goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance;
retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.
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What will ye do in the day of visitation? --Isa. x.
3.
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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.
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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
(wn) | visitation
n 1: 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]
2: any disaster or catastrophe; "a visitation of the plague"
3: 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" |
VISITATION
(bouvier) | VISITATION. The act of examining into the affairs of a corporation.
2. The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and
eleemosynary corporations. 1 Bl. Com. 480; 2 Kid on Corp. 174. The
visitation of civil corporations is by the government itself, through the
medium of the courts of justice Vide 2 Kent, Com. 240.
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visitation
(mass) | visitation
- návšteva |
conjugal visitation
(encz) | conjugal visitation, n: |
conjugal visitation rights
(encz) | conjugal visitation rights, n: |
visitation
(encz) | visitation,návštěva n: Zdeněk Brož |
visitation rights
(encz) | visitation rights, n: |
visitations
(encz) | visitations,návštěvy n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
Revisitation
(gcide) | Revisitation \Re*vis`it*a"tion\, n.
The act of revisiting.
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The Order of the Visitation of Our Lady
(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.
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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.
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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.
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5. Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and
goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance;
retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.
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What will ye do in the day of visitation? --Isa. x.
3.
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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.
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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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conjugal visitation
(wn) | conjugal visitation
n 1: the legal right in a prison for the inmate and spouse to
have sexual intercourse [syn: conjugal visitation right,
conjugal visitation] |
conjugal visitation right
(wn) | conjugal visitation right
n 1: the legal right in a prison for the inmate and spouse to
have sexual intercourse [syn: conjugal visitation right,
conjugal visitation] |
visitation
(wn) | visitation
n 1: 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]
2: any disaster or catastrophe; "a visitation of the plague"
3: 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" |
visitation right
(wn) | visitation right
n 1: the right granted by a court to a parent (or other
relative) who is deprived of custody of a child to visit
the child on a regular basis |
EX VISITATIONE DEI
(bouvier) | EX VISITATIONE DEI. By or from the visitation of God. This phrase is
frequently employed in inquisitions by the coroner, where it signifies that
the death of the deceased is a natural one.
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VISITATION
(bouvier) | VISITATION. The act of examining into the affairs of a corporation.
2. The power of visitation is applicable only to ecclesiastical and
eleemosynary corporations. 1 Bl. Com. 480; 2 Kid on Corp. 174. The
visitation of civil corporations is by the government itself, through the
medium of the courts of justice Vide 2 Kent, Com. 240.
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