Visit

viz′it, v.t. to go to see or inspect: to attend: enter, appear in: to call on: ( B. ) to reward or punish.— v.i. to be in the habit of seeing or meeting each other: to keep up acquaintance.— n. act of visiting or going to see.— adjs. Vis′itable , subject to visitation: attractive to visitors; Vis′itant , paying visits, visiting.— n. one who visits: one who is a guest in the house of another: a migratory bird: one of an order of nuns founded by St Francis de Sales in 1610, also called Sales i ans , Order (also Nuns ) of the Visitation —the order has done much in the education of young girls.— n. Visitā′tion , act of visiting: examination by authority: a dispensation, whether of divine favour or retribution: ( rare ) the object of a visit: the act of a naval commander in boarding the ve el of another state to ascertain her character and object: a visit of a herald to a district for the examination of its arms, pedigrees, .: an unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region: ( eccles. ) a festival to commemorate the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth, observed by the Roman and Greek Churches on 2d July.— adjs. Visitātō′rial , Visitō′rial .— n. Vis′iting , the act of paying visits: prompting, influence.— adj. that which visits.— ns. Vis′iting-book , a book recording the names of persons who have called or are to be called on; Vis′iting-card , a small card, on which the name, addre , or title, may be printed, to be left in making calls or paying visits, and sometimes sent as an act of courtesy or in token of sympathy; Vis′iting-day , a day on which one is at home or ready to receive callers; Vis′it or , -er , one who visits, calls on, or makes a stay with a person: a person authorised to visit an institution to see that it is managed properly:— fem. Vis′itre .— Visitation of the sick , an office in the Anglican Church, used for the spiritual benefit of the sick, provision being also made for special confe ion and absolution. [Fr. visiter —L. visitāre , freq. of visĕre , to go to see, visit— vidēre , to see.]