Definition of Visitation

Visitation

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

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.

The object of a visit.

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.

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

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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Visitation Quotations

The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.
Emanuel Swedenborg

Destruction was effected after visitation, for visitation always precedes.
Emanuel Swedenborg

I thought The Visitation was good fun. We did some of that filming at Ealing on the big set.
Sarah Sutton

It was a world that I wanted to record because it was such a miracle visitation to me.
Laurie Lee

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Visitation Translations

visitation in German is Besuch, Heimsuchung

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