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Thompson Chain Reference
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American Church Dictionary
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Charles Buck Dictionary
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King James Dictionary
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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
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Vines' Expository Dictionary
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• Number, Visit, Punish
Whyte's Bible Characters
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Webster Dictionary
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
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The Catholic Encyclopedia
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Lexicons
• ܣܽܘܥܪܳܢܳܐ
• ܣܳܥܰܪ
• ἐπιδημέω
• ἐπισκέπτομαι
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• אֶל
• בּוֹא , לָבֹא
• נָטָה , מָנול
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VISITA'TION, n. L. visito.

1. The act of visiting.

Nothing but peace and gentle visitation.

2. Object of visit.

My early visitation and my last. Unusual.

3. In law, the act of a superior or superintending officer, who visits a corporation, college, church or other house, to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed. In England, the visitation of the diocese belongs to the bishop parochial visitation belongs peculiarly to the archdeacons.

4. In Scripture, and in a religious sense, the sending of afflictions and distresses on men to punish them for their sins, or to prove them. Hence afflictions, calamities and judgments are called visitations.

What will ye do in the day of visitation? Isaiah 10 .

5. Communication of divine love exhibition of divine goodness and mercy.