Visitation

n. visit, act of visiting; instance of a divorced parent spending legally granted time with his children; official inspection or examination; affliction or punishment by god; appearance of an apparition

Visitation can refer to several things:Visitation, in history, an official visit, usually for purposes of inspection, and the record of that visit. Both in English and Spanish (colonial) history.Heraldic visitations were made to establish the right of a person to bear arms, and are used today in genealogical researchCanonical visitation is an inspection made by a clergyman authorised under canon law, such as an archbishop, bishop, or archdeacon.the Visitation (Christian), a Christian liturgical feast day (31 May or 2 July) commemorating the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth as recorded in the Gospel of LukeVisitation, in United States Law, the term for the right of a non-custodial parent to visit with their children, elsewhere known as Contact (law)a Funeral Visitation, in the United States and Canada, a funeral custom where a mourner visits the deceased person's family and views the body lying in the casket, either at a funeral home or church. Tablet of Visitation refers to specific prayers used in Islam and the Bahá'í Faith while visiting the shrines of its founders, saints or martyrs.Supernatural Visitation, an experience of presence or communication between the recently deceased and their spouse or progeny
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Noun
1. an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event; "his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him"; "life is full of tribulations"; "a visitation of the plague"
(synonym) trial, tribulation
(hypernym) affliction
(hyponym) fire
(derivation) inflict, bring down, visit, impose
2. any disaster or catastrophe; "a visitation of the plague"
(hypernym) calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
(derivation) visit
3. an official visit for inspection or supervision; "the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations"; "the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese"
(hypernym) visit
(derivation) visit, inspect

n. visitation, visit

(n.)
The object of a visit.
  

(n.)
The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination.
  

(n.)
The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually coupled with the right of search (see under Search), visitation being used for the purpose of search.
  

(n.)
Specifically: The act of a superior or superintending officer who, in the discharge of his office, visits a corporation, college, etc., to examine into the manner in which it is conducted, and see that its laws and regulations are duly observed and executed; as, the visitation of a diocese by a bishop.
  

(n.)
Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment.
  

(n.)
A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July.