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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.
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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 visits in a Sentence
In prison she won the affections of the guards, and was allowed the privilege of writing materials and the occasional visits of devoted friends.
It visits Palestine, but is unknown in Egypt.
She rarely made an exception and went out to pay visits, and then only to the most important persons in the town.
According to his expense accounts, he only went to Scranton twice that we know of—both visits only a day or two.
He never offered financial support, and though he claimed to want to see his daughter, visits never came to fruition.
The races, the English Club, sprees with Denisov, and visits to a certain house--that was another matter and quite the thing for a dashing young hussar!
That evening she expected several important personages who had to be made ashamed of their visits to the French theater and aroused to a patriotic temper.
These visits of Natasha's at night before the count returned from his club were one of the greatest pleasures of both mother, and daughter.
The conqueror visits a cannibal kingdom and finds many marvels in the palace of Porus, among them a vine with golden branches, emerald leaves and fruit of other precious stones.
None of us admitted to the possibility that the visions were real visits to the past.
He later made yearly visits to Paris.
In the earliest Audit Rolls after the restoration of the college in 1467 there are many entries of visits of Provost Westbury to "the lord of Winchester," which in January1468-1469were for "beginning the work of the church" "and providing money for them."
Her visits are nothing more than an inspection tour.
He paid frequent visits to the court of his godfather the emperor Frederick II., and his loyalty to Frederick and to his son Conrad IV.
Over the next couple of weeks, Cynthia made a few visits to town, once taking in a movie before she returned.
The unspeakable deeds of this animal who held us were well known to me, vicariously, through the notes of Howie's visits to his past.
Gabriel's visits weren't often, but Rhyn had grown to like him.
The reports went back nearly three years and listed dates, locations and dollars expended, with each entry carefully and manually recording names, locations, reasons for visits and persons present.
The excessive heat of the upper regions compels him to descend, and he next visits the bottom of the sea in a kind of diving-bell.
Other schools of philosophy pay flying visits to theism; intuitionalism is at home there.
The home established near Port Blair is used as a sort of free asylum which the native visits according to his pleasure.
We are also able to carry out home visits to disabled, elderly or otherwise housebound individuals.
Kronfeld has shown that aconites are dependent for this on the visits of a Bombus and cannot exist outside the area where it occurs.
After the reign of Xerxes, Persis and Persepolis became utterly neglected, in spite of occasional visits, and even the palaces of Persepolis remained in part unfinished.
British visits to Eastern countries, at this time, were not confined to the voyages of the company.
A flamingo (Phoeniconaias) visits Fisherman Lake, and there are a good many species of herons.
Machine shops are usually provided to enable minor repairs to be executed; the tendency, both in England and America, is to increase the amount of such repairing plant at engine sheds, thus lengthening the intervals between the visits of the engines to the main repairing shops of the railway.
His account of his visits to England, entitled The Indian Eye on English Life (1893), passed through three editions, and an earlier book of a somewhat satirical nature, Gujarat and the Gujaratis (1883), was equally popular.
Other common modifications arise from the union of certain parts of the perianth to each other, and from the varied and often very remarkable outgrowths from the lip. These modifications are associated with the structure and habits of insects and their visits to the flowers.
Havingattained its object the insect withdraws, taking the pollen-masses, and visits another flower.
These illustrations are comparatively simple; it would have been easy to select others of a more complicated nature, but all evidently connected with the visits of insects and the cross fertilization of the flower.
Subsequent visits to the same part of North America, often performed under circumstances of discomfort and occasionally of danger, brought to this intrepid and energetic explorer the reward he had so fully earned.
In addition to th e se residents or natives of the locality, Shelley, Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clough, Crabb Robinson, Carlyle, Keats, Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Mrs Hemans, Gerald Massey and others of less reputation made longer or shorter visits, or were bound by ties of friendship with the poets already mentioned.
Official receptions are held on it, and private visits paid; friends congratulate one another, and presents are given; new clothes are put on, and the graves of relatives are visited.
It was now essentially an animal den, the occasional visits of man being indicated by the rare occurrence of flintimplements.
During those two years he paid three visits to the university.
His people hailed every appearance among them with delight, and his visits to various parts of the country were public holidays.
In London society, and in Paris during his occasional visits, he was a recognized favourite for his genial wisdom and his great conversational power.
In Sambucus and Viburnum the small white flowers are massed in heads; honey is secreted at the base of the styles and, the tube of the flower being very short, is exposed to the visits of flies and insects with short probosces.
His life in London was varied by frequent visits to Italy, where he occupied himself more in literary and antiquarian research than with art.
The earliest account of the catacombs, that of St Jerome narrating his visits to them when a schoolboy at Rome, about A.D.
The relics having been removed, the visits of pilgrims naturally ceased, and by degrees the very existence of those wonderful subterranean cemeteries was forgotten.
Our description of the Roman Catacombs cannot be more appropriately introduced than by St Jerome's account of his visits to them in his youth, already referred to, which, catacombs after the lapse of above fifteen centuries, presents a of Rome.
Their yearly visits to Serajevo assumed in time the character of an informal parliament, for the discussion of national questions; and their rights tended always to increase, and to become hereditary, in fact, though not in law.
Sultan Abd-ul-Aziz's journey to Europe and the return visits paid by foreign princes strengthened Turkey's relations with foreign states.
He often accompanied his father on his official visits to the lighthouses of the Scottish coast and on longer journeys, thus early accustoming himself to travel.
In 1875 appeared, anonymously, his Appeal to the Clergy of the Church of Scotland, and in that year he made the first of many visits to the forest of Fontainebleau.
The people dressed themselves gaily, some in the disguise of the mythical personages in the suite of Dionysus, and paid a round of visits to their acquaintances.
Here he remained for the rest of his life, with occasional visits to Honolulu, until he became stricken with leprosy in 1885.
The historians of the Roman Empire have left us some particulars of the visits of emperors and generals to Britain, but little or nothing about what happened in London, and we should be more ignorant than we are of the condition of Londinium if it had not been that a large number of excavations have been made in various parts of the city which have disclosed a considerable amount of its early history.