English-Thai Dictionary

Visitation

N การเฉลิมฉลอง การ มา เยี่ยมเยียน ของ พระมารดา แห่ง พระเยซู  kan-cha-loem-cha-long-kan-ma-yiam-yian

 

visitation

N การเยี่ยม  การ เยี่ยมเยียน  การ ออก ตรวจ  การ สำรวจ  kan-yiam

 

visitational

ADJ เกี่ยวกับ การ ฉลอง การ มา เยี่ยมเยียน ของ พระมารดา แห่ง พระเยซู  kiao-kab-kan-cha-loem-cha-long-kan-ma-yiam-yian

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

VISITATION

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 1 :3.
5. Communication of divine love; exhibition of divine goodness and mercy.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

VISITATION

Vis `it *a "tion, n. Etym: [L. visitatio: cf. F. visitation. ]

 

1. The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination. Nothing but peace and gentle visitation. Shak.

 

2. 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.

 

3. The object of a visit. [Obs. ] "O flowers,... my early visitation and my last. " Milton.

 

4. (Internat. Law )

 

Defn: 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.

 

5. 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 Isa. x. 3.

 

6. (Eccl.)

 

Defn: 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 161 ,and in 18 8 established in the United States. In America these nuns are devoted to the education of girls.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

visitation

vis it a tion |ˌvizəˈtāSHən ˌvɪzəˈteɪʃən | ▶noun 1 an official or formal visit, in particular: • (in church use ) an official visit of inspection, esp. one by a bishop to a church in the bishop's diocese. • the appearance of a divine or supernatural being. • a gathering with the family of a deceased person before the funeral. • Law a divorced person's right to spend time with their children in the custody of a former spouse. 2 a disaster or difficulty regarded as a divine punishment: a visitation of the plague. 3 (the Visitation ) the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth related in Luke 1:39 –56. • the festival commemorating this on May 31 (formerly July 2 ). ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin visitatio (n- ), from the verb visitare (see visit ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

visitation

vis ¦it |ation |vɪzɪˈteɪʃ (ə )n | ▶noun 1 the appearance of a divine or supernatural being. 2 an official visit of inspection, especially one by a bishop to a church in his diocese. • a pastoral or charitable visit, especially to the sick or poor. • informal an unwelcome or unduly protracted social visit. 3 [ mass noun ] US Law a divorced person's right to spend time with their children in the custody of a former spouse. 4 US a gathering with the family of a deceased person before the funeral. 5 a disaster or difficulty regarded as a divine punishment: a visitation of the plague. 6 ( the Visitation ) the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth related in Luke 1:39 –56. • the festival commemorating this on 31 May (formerly 2 July ). ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French, or from late Latin visitatio (n- ), from the verb visitare (see visit ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

visitation

visitation noun 1 the bishop's visitations: visit, official, tour of inspection, survey, examination. 2 a visitation from God: apparition, vision, appearance, manifestation, materialization. 3 Jehovah punished them by visitations: affliction, scourge, bane, curse, plague, blight, disaster, tragedy, catastrophe; punishment, retribution, vengeance.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

visitation

visitation noun 1 the bishop conducted a busy schedule of pastoral visitations: official visit, visit, inspection, tour of inspection, survey, review, scrutiny, examination. 2 the blinding light had signified a visitation from God: apparition, appearance, manifestation, materialization, emergence, vision. 3 Jehovah was considered as punishing sinners by providential visitations: affliction, scourge, bane, curse, ordeal, plague, pestilence, blight, disaster, tragedy, calamity, catastrophe, cataclysm; punishment, retribution, penalty, vengeance. ANTONYMS blessing.

 

Duden Dictionary

Visitatio

Vi si ta tio Substantiv, feminin , die |Visit a tio |die Visitatio; Genitiv: der Visitatio, Plural: die Visitationen lateinisch bildliche Darstellung von Marias Besuch bei Elisabeth Heimsuchung Mariä

 

Visitation

Vi si ta ti on Substantiv, feminin , die |Visitati o n |die Visitation; Genitiv: der Visitation, Plural: die Visitationen altfranzösisch visitation bzw. mittellateinisch visitatio < lateinisch visitatio = Besichtigung, zu: visitare, visitieren 1 Durchsuchung eine Visitation des Gepäcks vornehmen 2 a Kirchenvisitation b veraltend Besuch des Schulrats zur Überprüfung des Unterrichts

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

visitation

vis it a tion /vɪ̀zɪtéɪʃ (ə )n /名詞 1 C 職務的訪問, 視察, 巡視 ; (司教の )管区巡察 ; 船舶臨検 .2 C (牧師の )信徒訪問 .3 C 天の配剤, 天罰, 天の恵み ; 災難, 災害 ; 不幸 .4 C ｟くだけて ｠ «…の » 迷惑な長居 «from » .5 〖the V- 〗(ヨハネの母への )聖母マリアの訪問 ; その祝日 〘7月2日 〙.6 C (異常な時期における鳥などの )大群の渡来 .7 C U 〘法 〙(離婚 [別居 ]した親が )子供と面会すること .～́ r ì ghts 〘法 〙(離婚 [別居 ]した親の )子供との面会権 .