visitation

From Anglo-Norman visitacioun, from Old French visitacion, from Latin vīsitātiō.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

visitation (countable and uncountable, plural visitations)

1. The act of visiting, or an instance of being visited.
2. An official visit to inspect or examine something.
3. An encounter with supernatural beings such as ghosts or aliens.
4. The right of a separated or divorced parent to visit a child; access.
5. A punishment or blessing ordained by God.
6. (ecology) An unusual and extensive irruption of a species of animals into another region.

• vitiations

Borrowed from Latin vīsitātiō.

visitation f (oblique plural visitations, nominative singular visitation, nominative plural visitations)

1. visitation (act of visiting)
2. visitation (visit in order to inspect something)
3. visitation (supernatural encounter)

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (visitation, supplement)
• visitation on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub