Visitation ¹

Definition: The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination.

Visitation ²

Definition: 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.

Visitation ³

Definition: The object of a visit.

Visitation ⁴

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.

Visitation ⁵

Definition: Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.

Visitation ⁶

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.

visitation ⁷

Definition: 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 ⁸

Definition: any disaster or catastrophe; "a visitation of the plague"

visitation ⁹

Definition: 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"