visitation

  • 61Visitation — noun (Roman Catholic Church) the visit of the Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth; the commemoration of this on 31st May …

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  • 62visitation — noun a) The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited. b) An official visit to inspect or examine something …

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  • 63visitation — Synonyms and related words: Jacksonian epilepsy, Rolandic epilepsy, abdominal epilepsy, access, acquired epilepsy, activated epilepsy, affect epilepsy, affliction, akinetic epilepsy, apoplexy, arrest, attack, autonomic epilepsy, bane, blight,… …

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  • 64visitation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. visit; calamity, misfortune; seizure, stroke, blow; disaster; bad luck, hardship. See adversity, disease. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [An affliction] Syn. calamity, trouble, adversity, misfortune, distress …

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  • 65visitation — sb. Manuel des Pecches, 2103 …

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  • 66visitation — vis·it·a·tion || ‚vɪzɪ teɪʃn n. visit, act of visiting; instance of a divorced parent spending legally granted time with his children; official inspection or examination; affliction or punishment by god; appearance of an apparition …

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  • 67visitation — n. 1. Dispensation (especially of retributive evil), calamity, disaster, affliction, misfortune, trial, blow, stroke, trouble, hardship, ill luck, ill fortune, infliction, retribution. 2. (Law.) Visiting (in order to examine), inspection …

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  • 68Visitation — the periodic inspection by a bishop of the temporal and spiritual affairs of a diocese which are under his control, or by an abbot or monastic official of houses within his jurisdiction …

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  • 69visitation — n 1.(all usu. unpleasant) event, occurrence, happening, incident, episode, occasion, turn of events; experience, Sl. bad trip, Sl. bummer. 2. affliction, infliction, bane, blight, curse, scourge, plague, pestilence; shock, blow, heavy or nasty or …

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  • 70visitation — vis·i·ta·tion …

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