An official visit for inspection or supervision

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.