Visitation

[vɪzɪ'teɪʃ(ə)n] or ['vɪzə'teʃən]

解释:

(noun.) an official visit for inspection or supervision; 'the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations'; 'the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese'.

(noun.) any disaster or catastrophe; 'a visitation of the plague'.

编辑:卡蒂--From WordNet

解释:

(n.) The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination.

(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.

(n.) The object of a visit.

(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.

(n.) Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.

(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.

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同义词及近义词：

n. [1]. Dispensation (especially of retributive evil), calamity, disaster, affliction, misfortune, trial, blow, stroke, trouble, hardship, ill luck, ill fortune.[2]. (Law.) Visiting (in order to examine), inspection.

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