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Visitation
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July.
(2):
(n.) 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.
(3):
(n.) The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination.
(4):
(n.) 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.
(5):
(n.) The object of a visit.
(6):
(n.) Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Visitation'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/v/visitation.html. 1828.
