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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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
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
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.
As a result of these charges, combined with the hopeless financial situation in which the College was floundering, the Board of the Royal Institution determined to exercise their visitatorial power and to make an investigation.
From McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 by MacMillan, Cyrus
The Governors resented, too, the visitatorial power of the Royal Institution.
From McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 by MacMillan, Cyrus
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