Word Finder - visitations

definition

The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.

definition

An official visit to inspect or examine something.

definition

An encounter with supernatural beings such as ghosts or aliens.

definition

The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.

definition

A punishment or blessing ordained by God.

definition

An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.

During the 8th and 9th centuries the office tended to become more and more exclusively purely administrative, the archdeacon by his visitations relieving the bishop of the minutiae of government and keeping him informed in detail of the condition of his diocese.

The clergy having thus another authority, and one moreover more canonical, to appeal to, the power of the archdeacons gradually declined; and, so far as the Roman Catholic Church is concerned, it received its death-blow from the council of Trent (1564), which withdrew all matrimonial and criminal causes from the competence of the archdeacons, forbade them to pronounce excommunications, and allowed them only to hold visitations in connexion with those of the bishop and with his consent.

It is his especial duty to inspect the churches within his archdeaconry, to see that the fabrics are kept in repair, and to hold annual visitations of the clergy and churchwardens of each parish, for the purpose of ascertaining that the clergy are in residence, of admitting the newly elected churchwardens into office, and of receiving the presentments of the outgoing churchwardens.

In 1862 he published his pamphlet entitled The Three Panics, the object of which was to trace the history and expose the folly of those periodical visitations of alarm as to French designs with which England had been afflicted for the preceding fifteen or sixteen years.

The organization of the Benedictine houses into provinces or chapters under this legislation interfered in the least possible degree with the Benedictine tradition of mutual independence of the houses; the provinces were loose federations of autonomous houses, the legislative power of the chapter and the canonical visitations being the only forms of external interference.

He was busied in conferences and visitations during the next twenty years, and in diplomatic work with the princes.

The abbot of the head monastery was the superior-general of the whole institute; he nominated the superiors of the other monasteries; he was visitor and held periodical visitations at all of them; he exercised universal supervision, control and authority; and every year a general chapter was held at the head house.

Its hopes, based on a Euphrates valley railway, which was to have started from its port of Suedia (Seleucia), were doomed to disappointment, and it has suffered repeatedly from visitations of cholera; but it has nevertheless grown rapidly and will resume much of its old importance when a railway is made down the lower Orontes valley.

In the Anglican Church a vicar-general is employed by the archbishop of Canterbury and some other bishops to assist in such matters as ecclesiastical visitations.

Hurricanes, accompanied by waterspouts, sometimes cause much devastation; but, on the whole, the islands are singularly free from such visitations.

When Luther thought of the Swiss reformer he muttered as Archbishop Parker did of John Knox- "God keep us from such visitations as Knox hath attempted in Scotland; the people to be orderers of things."

All these three species occasionally visit the southern coasts of Europe in large flocks, but their visitations are highly irregular.

The Black Death came to that city in 1348, and it is said that, when the city was deserted by all who could leave it, Tauler remained at his post, encouraging by sermons and personal visitations his terror-stricken fellow-citizens.

His episcopal visitations were annual.

Truculent pamphieteers like Simon Fish, who wrote Beggars Supplication, were already demanding that these sturdy boobies should be set abroad into the world, to get wives of their own, and earn their living by the sweat of their brows, according to the commandment of God; so might the king be better obeyed, matrimony be better kept, the gospel better preached, and none should rob the poor of his alms. It must be added that monastic scandals were not rare; though the majority of the houses were decently ordered, yet the unexceptionable testimony of archiepiscopal and episcopal visitations shows that in the years just before the Reformation there was a certain number of them where chastity of life and honesty of administration were equally unknown.

While in the north he was active in forcing the recusants to conform to the Church of England, preaching hundreds of sermons and carrying out thorough visitations.

Against such visitations, which reduced the population by about a fourth, little could be done.

At the Easter Visitations, new churchwardens for each parish were sworn in to act during the following year.

This would allow uncanny coincidences like this to occur, and perhaps give a reason for the aliens ' visitations.

Finally, as might be expected, heraldry was recorded very fully at the heralds ' visitations.

Kentish visitations reveal, moreover, that it was not simply the chancel which remained an issue.

Visitations of the north, or some early heraldic visitations of the north, or some early heraldic visitations of, and collections of pedigrees relating to, the north of England.

And, further, either our bishops will resume episcopal visitations or the parish will accept delegated oversight.

And, further, either our bishops will resume Episcopal visitations or the parish will accept delegated oversight.

There are no more supervised visitations, but for all practical purposes it ruined my relationship with my children, so my ex-wife and her family accomplished their goal.

Films such as Ghosts of Girlfriends Past deliver on the theme by tormenting the main character with visitations of three spirits trying to educate him on matters of the heart.

Although the family history is fairly innocuous, the house itself still provides many tales of visitations and supernatural occurrences.

There were five presbyteries holding monthly meetings and annual visitations of all the congregations within their bounds, and coming together in general synod four times a year.

Entire conformity with the Scottish Church was maintained, and strict discipline was enforced by pastoral visitations, kirk-sessions and presbyteries.

These were usually regarded as visitations of chastisement for national sins and vindications of divine righteousness or judgments, i.e.

Fresh visitations of the Black Death, in 1362 and 1369, intensified the social and economic disturbances which had begun with the first outbreak in 1348.