visitation

  • 21visitation — [[t]vɪ̱zɪte͟ɪʃ(ə)n[/t]] visitations 1) N COUNT A visitation is an event in which God or another non human being seems to appear to someone or contact them. The young people have claimed almost daily visitations from the Virgin Mary. 2) N COUNT… …

    English dictionary

  • 22VISITATION — s. f. Il n est usité que dans ces phrases, La Visitation de la Vierge, la fête de la Visitation, La fête instituée en mémoire de ce que la sainte Vierge alla visiter sainte Élisabeth, sa cousine. Il y a aussi Un ordre de religieuses, qu on… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 23VISITATION — n. f. Action de visiter. Il n’est usité que dans cette expression : La Visitation de la Vierge, La visite que la Sainte Vierge rendit à sainte élisabeth, sa cousine. Nombreux sont les tableaux qui représentent la Visitation. Ordre de la… …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 24visitation — visitational, adj. /viz i tay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of visiting. 2. a formal visit, as one permitted by a court s granting of visitation rights or by parents invited to a school to observe the work of students. 3. a visit for the purpose of… …

    Universalium

  • 25visitation — vis|i|ta|tion [ ,vızı teıʃn ] noun 1. ) count or uncount FORMAL the activity of visiting a place or person: the visitation of the sick a ) uncount the right of a divorced parent to visit children who live with the other parent: a visitation… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 26visitation — n. 1 an official visit of inspection, esp. a bishop s examination of a church in his diocese. 2 trouble or difficulty regarded as a divine punishment. 3 (Visitation) a the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth related in Luke 1:39 56. b the… …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 27Visitation '79 — Infobox Album Name = Visitation 79 Type = Album Artist = The Visitors Released = 1994 Recorded = 1979 Genre = Proto Punk Length = Label = Red Eye Producer = Deniz Tek and Charles Fisher Reviews = Last album = The Visitors (1983) This album =… …

    Wikipedia

  • 28visitation — Inspection; superintendence; direction; regulation. Bank of America Nat. Trust & Savings Ass n v. Douglas, 70 App.D.C. 221, 105 F.2d 100, 105. In family law, visitation refers to noncustodial parent s right of access to his or her child; while… …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 29Visitation — Vi|si|ta|ti|on 〈 [vi ] f.; Gen.: , Pl.: en〉 1. Durchsuchung; LeibesVisitation 2. Besichtigung, Untersuchung, Nachprüfung durch Besuch; SchulVisitation [Etym.: frz., »Heimsuchung, Durchsuchung« <lat. visitatio »Besichtigung«; zu visitare… …

    Lexikalische Deutsches Wörterbuch

  • 30visitation — vis|i|ta|tion [ˌvızıˈteıʃən] n 1.) [U and C] formal an official visit to a place or person 2.) [U and C] law an occasion when a parent is allowed to spend time with the children after a ↑divorce, or the right to do this ▪ visitation rights 3.) an …

    Dictionary of contemporary English