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A single act of visiting.
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A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
verb
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To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
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To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
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Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
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To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
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Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
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To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
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To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
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To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
Examples of visit in a Sentence
If you're hungry, visit the kitchen.
My first visit to the infamous room was disappointing.
Hopefully they would come visit sometime.
Her visit to the World's Fair she described in a letter to Mr. John P. Spaulding, which was published in St. Nicholas, and is much like the following letter.
Now I get to visit with you.
I had a beautiful visit at Hulton.
Had this woman brought her child on this nocturnal visit, I'd have surely snatched her away.
Bro, come visit soon.
Their time was limited if they were to visit the disputed property.
Will you tell your team captains I may visit them?
He invited me to visit his museum in Salem the next time I go to Boston.
Pushing the thought from her mind, she focused on Allen's visit last night.
Two times she had been back to visit her siblings, both times at Christmas.
Please give your dear aunt teacher's and my love and tell her that we enjoyed our little visit very much indeed.
I hope we shall visit it some day.
Do you always visit the relatives of accident victims on your personal time?
I used the break in at Ethel Reagan's place as an excuse to have Howie visit both Boston burglaries.
I imagine I'd want to know if I could come home to visit you.
I hope she's coming to visit.
If their meeting today was any indication, this visit was going to be interesting - if not uncomfortable.
It was time to pack up and get out - as soon as the visit from his sister was over.
Betsy suggested Howie should pay a visit to Mr. Merrill Cooms.
The Dawkinses, back to being cautiously nice to each other, were dressed for business—another necktie and nylons day, according to Paulette—scheduled for a group visit to their attorney and a realtor.
Even if this man agreed to bring Kiera back for a visit, Romas and his clan would deny permission.
Will he let her visit soon?
At last Philip unwillingly gave way, and he secretly suggested to the cardinal that he should ask permission from the regent to visit his mother at Besancon.
Wanna visit the sector? he asked, turning his attention to Dusty.
It probably would have been so anyway, but Lori's visit made it more so.
Neither mentioned the late night phone call during Edith's nocturnal visit nor Cynthia's sudden, unannounced return.
Feel free to call, text or visit.
It's a one way visit, and that is what you fear most, the possibility you turn into what you hate.
Before the last full moon, you never desired to visit the villages, or even to venture outside our walls.
So how was the visit with your father?
Does she want to visit us?
After a visit to the Mauritius, then a Dutch possession, Tasman bore away to the south-east, and on the 24th of November sighted the western coast of the land which he named Van Diemen's Land, in honour of the governor under whose directions he was acting.
Sisyphus accordingly burnt his name into the hoofs of his cattle, and, during a visit to Autolycus, recognized his property.
It is possible that a member of Panfilo de Narvaez's expedition of 1528 entered what is now southern Alabama, but the first fully authenticated visit was that of Hernando de Soto, who made an arduous but fruitless journey along the Coosa, Alabama and Tombigbee rivers in 1539.
In France agitation was directed chiefly against the Jesuits, active in the movement to displace ancient local catechisms and liturgies by the Roman texts, to enroll the laity in Roman confraternities, and to induce the bishops to visit Rome more frequently.
Heinrich Heine made use of these legends in his Nordseebilder, composed during a visit to Norderney in 1825.
In the next year the sultan received the visit of the German emperor and empress.
There is no reason to doubt that some such visit was made about the year 315, when the death of Maximin Daza left Constantine supreme.
At this time he was nominated to the pope as coadjutor of Geneva,' and after a visit to Rome he assisted Bishop de Granier in the administration of the newly converted countries and of the diocese at large.
The visit was marked by the greatest cordiality, Count Robilants fears of inopportune pressure with regard to Irredentism proving groundless.
In Italy public opinion as a whole was favorable to the visit, especially as it was not considered an obstacle to the projected increase of the army and navy.
He was also distinguished as a reciter, and on a visit to the United States in 1871 read extracts from his works before large audiences.
After they have performed their religious services they visit their relations and friends, when the ceremony of hamijur, or joining hands, is performed.
The feeling of distrust was removed in 1861 by a visit from Mr (afterwards Sir) Theophilus Shepstone, secretary for native affairs in Natal, who induced Panda to proclaim Cetywayo publicly as the future king.
He died on the 28th of December 1874, while on a visit to relatives in New York City.
In these circumstances, President McKinley, accompanied by the greater part of his cabinet, set forth in the early summer on a tour to visit the Pacific coast, where he was to witness the launching of the battleship "Ohio" at San Francisco.
After his return he spent a month in a visit at his old home in Canton, Ohio, and at the end of this visit, by previous arrangement, he visited the city of Buffalo, New York, in order to attend the Pan-American exposition and deliver a public address.