Crossword clues for visitation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Visitation \Vis`it*a"tion\, n. [L. visitatio: cf. F. visitation.]
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The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination.
Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.
--Shak. 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. [Obs.] ``O flowers, . . . my early visitation and my last.''
--Milton.(Internat. Law) 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.
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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?
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(Eccl.) 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "a visit by an ecclesiastical representative to examine the condition of a parish, abbey, etc.," from Anglo-French visitacioun, Old French visitacion and directly from Latin visitationem (nominative visitatio), noun of action from past participle stem of visitare (see visit (v.)). The supernatural sense of "a sight, apparition, a coming of God to a mortal" is attested from mid-14c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited. 2 An official visit to inspect or examine something. 3 An encounter with supernatural beings such as ghosts or aliens. 4 The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access. 5 A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
WordNet
n. 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" [syn: trial, tribulation]
any disaster or catastrophe; "a visitation of the plague"
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"
Wikipedia
Visitation may refer to:
The Visitation is the visit of Mary with Elizabeth as recorded in the Gospel of Luke, . It is also the name of a Christian feast day commemorating this visit, celebrated on 31 May in the West (2 July in calendars of the 1263–1969 period, and in the modern regional calendar of Germany) and Hungary and 30 March among Eastern Christians.
The Visitation is a c. 1517 painting of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary to Saint Elizabeth by Raphael, in the Prado Museum since 1837. Commissioned by the Apostolic Protonotary Giovanni Branconio at his father Marino's request for their family chapel in the church of San Silvestre in Aquila (Marino's wife was called Elisabeth), it was plundered by the occupation troops of Philip IV of Spain in 1655 and placed at El Escorial.
The Visitation is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, dating 1491. It is displayed in the Louvre Museum of Paris, France.
The work was commissioned by Lorenzo Tornabuoni for the church later known as Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi.
Visitation is a collaborative album by Bill Laswell and Jonah Sharp. It was released on August 12, 1994 by Subharmonic.
Visitation is an album by multi-instrumentalist and composer Joe McPhee, recorded in 1983 and first released on the Canadian Sackville label, it was rereleased on CD in 2003.
Visitation is 1503 a woodcut engraving by the German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer, held in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich. The work recounts an episode form the biblical tale of when Mary, heavily pregnant, travels to see her much older cousin Elisabeth, who is now also late with child.
Visitation shows the women as they embrace at the house of Elisabeth's husband Zacharias, who is shown standing at the doorway to the left of the woodcut. Both Zacharias and his wife are old; and he is struck into silence by the fact of his long barren wife having finally conceived a child.
The highly detailed landscape shown in the background is generally regarded to be a climax in Dürer's work, and was likely inspired by the artist's two journeys through the Alps during 1494–95.
Visitation is the second studio album by the Los Angeles-based alternative rock band Division Day, released on 18 August 2009 through Dangerbird Records. After splitting from their original label — Eenie Meenie Records — the band decided to self-fund these recordings (signing to Dangerbird after all was said and done), and brought in Justin Meldal-Johnsen ( Nine Inch Nails, Beck, M83) to produce the album. Todd Burke (Ben Harper, The Kooks) was also brought to handle the engineering duties. With most of the tracks nearly-completed by the time they made it into the studio, JMJ and the band were able to record the album relatively quickly; after just ten days at The Bank in Burbank, the album was finished.
Usage examples of "visitation".
The flock, without a shepherd, was assaulted by the power of the Portuguese, the arts of the Jesuits, and the zeal of Alexis de Menezes, archbishop of Goa, in his personal visitation of the coast of Malabar.
I do not know what his arrival here means yet, but certainly it is an auspicious and momentous visitation.
Mercald the Birder received a visitation from a messenger of the Boundless.
William Codd, and when Bishop John Russell held a visitation in 1485 he was accused of practising unlawful arts.
Visitation, when their instruments are consigned, to sit with the Register, and demaunde of every minister their license, whereby you shall deprehend them which you want.
At last the Goog moved on, but not before telling the humbled people of Cedir that they would have to endure a visitation from the Rear Guard.
If you are mediating in a court-sponsored program and the mediator has power to make a recommendation regarding child custody and visitation, this becomes all the more important.
There were the Abbaye and the Luxembourg, the erstwhile convents of the Visitation and the Sacre-Coeur, the cloister of the Oratorians, the Salpetriere, and the St.
COMPLETE silence followed this newest visitation of the rustling death.
Sabel could not recall, even though he now made an effort to do so, that any such visitation had been impending-but then of late Sabel had been even more than usually isolated in his own work.
In the new paving of the crown of the causey, some years before, the rise in the middle had been levelled to an equality with the side loans, and in disposing of the lamp-posts, it was thought advantageous to place them halfway from the houses and the syvers, between the loans and the crown of the causey, which had the effect at night, of making the people who were wont, in their travels and visitations, to keep the middle of the street, to diverge into the space and path between the lamp-posts and the houses.
So was it indeed from the clouds that the visitations had come, and with those descending flowers, came machines that ran about the land ripping up trees and frightening Tachi children.
Melancholy, for she is none of those things and seems to have a pretty satisfactory sexual life, so long as Vizard does not jog the suffering place in his infrequently permitted visitations to her privy parts.
Heron was still waiting at the door, even whilst de Batz wondered what this nocturnal visitation would reveal to him of atrocity and of outrage.
That is, they multiply the number of reported sightings by the fraction of sightings made by credible observers, times the number of those sightings that resist conventional explanation, and so on until they arrive at a total number of sightings that seem explicable only by extraterrestrial visitation.