<noun.event> his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him life is full of tribulations a visitation of the plague
any disaster or catastrophe
<noun.event> a visitation of the plague
an official visit for inspection or supervision
<noun.act> the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese
Visitation \Vis`it*a"tion\, n. [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) 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.) 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 1610, and in 1808 established in the United States. In America these nuns are devoted to the education of girls.
Ms. Seymour had extensive visitation rights.
Under the agreement, which still must be approved by a Sarasota Circuit judge, the Twiggs could seek visitation rights if they are determined to be the biological parents.
Max's parents had argued in the New York case that giving grandparents visitation rights against the parents' objections was unconstitutional because it interfered with parents' rights to rear their children as they see fit.
The Johnston woman was given custody of her children and her husband was given visitation rights.
Tuesday's settlement appeared to end three months of court battles seeking to allow visitation between the two boys.
Levin said he would also try to address the visitation problem.
We are beginning to feel it now in some key areas." Yellowstone tourism surveys show that when the South Entrance closed July 23 the park's overall visitation dropped about 20 percent from 1987 levels.
The state settled the suit by agreeing in 1980 to continue an "open visitation policy" at the prison.
The only mutually acceptable crossings in the last 36 years have been delegates to talks by the two nations and about 150 people from each side who took part in a 1985 home visitation program allowing Koreans on either side to visit relatives.
Backers said all the measure does is extend hospital visitation and bereavement leave to these couples, but opponents feared it would open the door to providing other rights and expensive services later.
While mothers congratulated the judge for his innovative approach, it irritated a group called Fathers and Children Equality, which claims Family Court caters far too much to mothers and takes too long to handle child visitation violations.
The high court ruled that the issue of visitation must be resolved by early May.
Deutsch gave the parents unlimited visitation rights at the hospital but said they must be accompanied by a city or hospital official to prevent them from removing Darian Pagan again.
Let's go to work," attorney Joel Siegal said Wednesday in closing arguments in the Baby M visitation hearing.
Also, visitation schedules have not been finalized and the pact must still be approved by a Sarasota Circuit Court judge.
Levy said his organization and Hirschensohn are asking that the Supreme Court order a hearing on the visitation question.
A juvenile court judge ultimately awarded Reams permanent custody of the child and gave Ms. Seymoure visitation rights.
Some feminists, including those cited by Ms. Ansberry, fear that joint custody dilutes the claims of custodial mothers to child support and vitiates their ability to trade visitation for additional payments from fathers.
Harold Cassidy, attorney for Mrs. Whitehead-Gould, did not say what visitation she would seek during the meeting with the Sterns, or when the meeting would take place, the newspaper said.
The General Accounting Office in July recommended that Congress extend Medicaid coverage to home visitation programs, although it also recommended more research to determine exactly which kinds of programs work best.
Here, Coward manages to imbue the creepiness of Cavan's visitation with the social swing of a visit. The wit erupts occasionally: 'Are they in love?' asks Cavan.
Both women and the child were involved in the May 15 accident. Collin had been in New Jersey with his grandparents since the crash, but Bellemare gained custody after a hearing June 30. The grandparents were allowed visitation rights.
Pasqual weaves the stagey events of the piece - a multiple duel, a ghostly haunting, a conversation through a grille, a bullfight offstage, a royal visitation - into a visually satisfying rural tapestry.
State police Trooper Charles McPhail said inmate visitation rights recently had been revoked because of unspecified problems, which may also have been a cause for the uprising.
About 300 people were waiting outside the church this morning before visitation began.
"She did comply with the then-existing order for supervised visitation," Sachs said. "She purged herself of that (1986) contempt (claim).
His biological father, Mark Urban, has visitation rights.
They said the Kentucky prison's visitation policy is similar to those at prisons in many states.
Many women inmates are involved in custody and divorce battles, and male prisoners more and more are seeking visitation rights with children on the outside.
A New Jersey judge awarded full custody to the Sterns last December, but gave the grandparents and the former stepmother visitation rights.