visitation
(noun) 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
(noun) any disaster or catastrophe; “a visitation of the plague”
trial, tribulation, visitation
(noun) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
visitation (countable and uncountable, plural visitations)
The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
An official visit to inspect or examine something.
An encounter with supernatural beings such as ghosts or aliens.
The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
(ecology) An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.
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the Visitation
(Christianity) The visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth; the commemoration of this on 30 May in Eastern Christianity or 31 May in Western Christianity.
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Source: Wiktionary
Vis`it*a"tion, n. Etym: [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)
Definition: 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.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
21 February 2025
(noun) some artifact that has been restored or reconstructed; “the restoration looked exactly like the original”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
