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 original of all visitatorial power is the property of the donor, and the power every one has to dispose, direct, and regulate his own property; like the case of patronage; cujus est dare, &c.
From The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style by Webster, Daniel
As ‘Supreme Head of the Church’ Henry VIII. renewed the visitatorial authority of the Archbishops, and both he and Edward VI. confirmed the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Chapter.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric by Hallett, Cecil Walter Charles
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 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annexed to the crown an almost boundless visitatorial authority over the Church, though it had never been formally repealed, had really lost a great part of its force.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
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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