visitatorial
Americanadjective
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of or relating to an official visitor or official visitation.
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having the power of visitation.
adjective
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of, relating to, or for an official visitation or visitor
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empowered to make official visitations
Etymology
Origin of visitatorial
1680–90; < Medieval Latin vīsitātōri ( us ) ( see visitation, -tory 1) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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The Queen, however, still had over the Church a visitatorial power of vast and undefined extent.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
The enactment which annexed to the crown an almost boundless visitatorial authority over the Church, though it had never been formally repealed, had really lost a great part of its force.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
Parsons, Theophilus, Chief Justice of Massachusetts, 30; practice in New Hampshire, 36; argument as to visitatorial powers at Harvard College, 81.
From Daniel Webster by Lodge, Henry Cabot
S. Peter exercising supreme visitatorial power 145 VII.
From St. Peter, His Name and His Office As set forth in holy scripture by Allies, Thomas W.
Wolsey had used his legatine authority to extort money from monasteries as the price of their immunity from his visitatorial powers.
From Henry VIII. by Pollard, A. F. (Albert Frederick)
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