visit (vizit)

[ upon; proceed to in order to view or look on. And by the waye we vysyted some holy places. Sir R. Guylforde , Pylgrymage, p. 18. At lyons I visityd the Reliques at the yle wher Sent Anne lyes and longious. Torkington , Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 2. I was sick, and ye visited me. Mat. xxv. 36. We will visit you at supper-time. Shak ., M. of V., ii. 2. 215. His wife was the rich china-woman that the courtiers visited so often. B. Jonson, Epicœne, i. 1. 2. To come or go to, in general; appear in or at; enter. Amana is more familiar, and entreth the Citie - yea, by help of art, in Conduits visit eth their priuate houses. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 237. For me, in showers, in sweeping showers, the spring Visits the valley. Emerson, Musket a quid. 3. To go or come to see for the purpose of inspection, supervision, examination, correction of abuses, or the like; examine; inspect. I may excite your princely cogitations to visit the excellent treasure of your own mind. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, i. Achmet would not suffer the bales intended for the king of Aby in i a to be opened or visited, but left them in the hands of the amba ador. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 506. 4. To afflict; overtake or come upon: said especially of diseases or calamities. Ere he by sickne had been visited . Shak., 1 Hen. IV., iv. 1. 26. IMG:content-1895.png:[blocks in formation] Periodical visits were made by va als to their suzerains, and by these to their higher suzerains - the kings. H. Spencer , Prin. of Sociol., § 379. Domiciliary visit. See domiciliary. - Right of visit, Same as right of visitation. See visitation , 5.- Visit to the Ble ed Sacrament, in Rom . Cath . usage , a daily visit to a church in order to engage in silent prayer before the sacrament: a practice common in religious houses. visitable (viz'i-ta-bl), a. [ The next morning we set out again, in order to see the Sanctuaries and other visitable places upon Mount Olivet. Maundrell, Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 104. All hospitals built since the reformation are visitable by the king or lord chancellor. Ayliffe , Parergon. visitant (viz'i-tant), a. and n. [L. visit an (t-)s, ppr. of visit are, see: see visit.] I. a. Acting the part of a visitor; paying visits; visiting. He knew the rocks which Angels haunt Upon the mountains visitant . Words worth, Song at Feast of Brougham Castle. II. n. 1. One who visits; one who goes or comes to see another; one who is a guest in the house of a friend; a visitor. You have private visitants , my noble lady, That in sweet numbers court your goodly virtues. Fletcher, Wife for a Month, i. 2. He has a rich wrought waistcoat to entertain his vis i B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ii. 1. tants in. IMG:content-1896.png:[blocks in formation] ulations are observed and executed, or the like; specifically ( eccles.), such examination by a bishop of the churches in his diocese, with the added purpose of administering confirmation. The right of visitation attaches to metropolitans in their provinces, to bishops in their dioceses, and to archdeacons in certain cases. The magistrates shall be more familiar and open each to other, and more frequent in visitations, and shall, in tenderne and love, admonish one another. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 213. 4. A special dispensation from heaven, sometimes of divine favor, more usually of divine retribution; divine retributive affliction; hence, a similar incident of le importance, whether joyful or grievous. We see that the most comfortable visitations which God hath sent men from above have taken especially the times of prayer as their most natural opportunities. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 23. What will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? Isa. x. 3. These were bright visitations in a scholar's and a clerk's life. Lamb, Oxford in the Vacation. 5. In international law, the act of a naval commander who visits or boards a ve el belonging to another state for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object. It does not include the claim or exercise of the right of search. The right of performing this act is called the right of visit or of visitation. 6. [ cap.] A church festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth (Luke i. 39), celebrated on July 2d in the Roman Catholic, Greek, and other churches.7. In zoöl., an extensive, irregular, or otherwise notable migration into a place or country; an irruption, incursion, or invasion: as, a visitation of lemmings, of the Bohemian waxwing southward, or of the sand-grouse from Asia into France or England.-8. In her., an investigation by a high heraldic officer, usually one of the kings-at-arms, into the pedigrees, intermarriages, etc., of a family or the families of a district, with a view of ascertaining whether the arms borne by any person or persons living in that district are incorrect or unwarrantably a umed. The king-at-arms was accompanied on such occasions by secretaries, draftsmen, etc. The latest visitation on record in England seems to have been between the years 1686 and 1700; but before that time they had ceased to be regularly held. - Nuns of the Visitation, Order of the Visitation. See visitant, 3.-Visitation of the sick, an office of the Anglican Church, appointed to be used for the spiritual benefit of sick persons. Provision is made in the English Prayer-book for special confe ion and absolution of the sick person, while the American Prayer-book merely provides that the minister shall examine whether he repent him truly of his sins. visitatorial (viz"i-ta-tō'ri-al), a. [ The enactment by which Elizabeth and her succe ors had been empowered to appoint commi ioners with vis i tatorial authority over the Church was not only not revived, but was declared, with the utmost strength of language, to be completely abrogated. ers are received. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. A day on which call On visit - days she bears To mount her fifty flights of ample stairs. Parnell , Elegy to an Old Beauty. 2. In ornith., a migratory bird which comes to and stays in a place or region during a part of the year: opposed to resident: as, the snowy owl is a winter visitant from the north in the United States. Rare or irregular visitants are visit-day (viz'it-dā), n. termed stragglers. See straggler, 2.-3. [ cap.] A member of a Roman Catholic order of nuns, founded at Annecy in Savoy by Francis de Sales and Mme. de Chantal in 1610. The order spread in various countries, and has been efficient in the education of young girls. The Visitants are also called Sales i ans, Order of the Visitation, Nuns of the Visitation, etc. visitation (viz-i-tā'shon), n. [ or paying a visit; a visit. Therfore I made my visit a cio uns To vigilies and to proce iouns. Chaucer , Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 555. The king of Sicilia means to pay Bohemia the visitation which he justly owes him. Shak ., W. T., i. 1. 7. When a woman is deliuered of a child, the man lyeth in, and keepeth his bed, with visitation of Go ips, the space of fortie dayes. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 429. 2. The object of a visit. [Rare.] O flowers, My early visitation , and my last. Milton , P. L., xi. 275. 3. A formal or judicial visit paid periodically by a superior, superintending officer, or other competent authority, to a corporation, college, church, or other house, for the purpose of exof the body is conducted, and its laws and reg