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VISITED. 255 VISITOR.
185J ^MEDLEY L. Arumiel xxxvi. 303 A visite^ of light
blue^/oc/ silk. 1864 Daily Til. x July, She wore a white
dress with a black >ilk vi^^ite, and a white bonnet. 1885
Fall Mall G. 11 May 4/2 We have a ' visite ' without arms
or any proper accommodation for those useful iippeiidages.
2. Short forCAiiTE-DE-visiTE, in attrib. use.
1891 Anthony's Photo^. Bull. IV. 302 A stereoscope
camera which can be used to maKe..24 visite negatives.
Visited (vi-zited), ///. a. Also 6 vysset,
vysyted. [f. Visit vS\
+ 1. Afflicted with illness ; attacked by plague or
other epidemic, Obs.
1537 Notiinzham Rec. Ml. 375 This towne, the wheche
dothe kepe the vysset folke at Bradmar. 1553 S. Cabot
Ordinances in Hakluyt Voy. (1589) 261 The sicke, diseased,
weake, and visited person within boord to be,,
comforted and holpeii. 1575 Nottingham Rec. (i88g) IV.
159 Payd more for the charges of the vysyted woman at
Hye Crosse xxiij d. 1604 F. Herring Mod. Defence B 2,
He will not rush rashly into euery infected and visited
house. 1640 SoMNER Antiq, Canterb. 16 Convenient Pesthouses,
and Receptacles for the poore visited people of the
City. 171a De Foe /*/«^tf (i80) 33 If any person visited do
fortune . . to come . . from a place infected to an y other place.
2. That is the object of a visit or visits.
O. Walker Educ. n. i. 223 In receiving visits,, the
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GeniTemen meet them at the bottom. It is alwaies observed
that the visited^ Gentlemen attend one degree at
least further then the Patron. 1754 World No. 62 Pg The
Visited in these cases., have invented on their parts several
curious hints towards shortning the length of a Visitation.
1873 Smilfis Huguenots France \\\. i. {1881) 383 Dauphiny
is one uf the least visited of ail the provinces of France.
Visitee (vizitr)* [f- Visit z'. + -ee.] The
I>erson to whom a visit is paid.
i8as Ne7v Monthly Mag. XVI. 181 A very necessary con*
venance interposed between visitor and visitee in those
numerous calls of etiquette, 184a Mrs. Carlvle Lett,
(1883) I. 174 To suit the more fashionable hours of our
visitees. \fSi6Cornh. Mag. July 39, I should think that
angels (and their visitees) were very lucky.
Visiter (vizitai). Now rare. Also 6 vycytar.
[f. Visit v-v -er.]
1. = Visitor 2 a and 2 b.
1383 Wyclif 3 Mace. iii. 39 He that in heuens hath dwellyng,
is visiter and helper of that place. 1608 Willet
Hexapla Exoil. 822 He is also a visiter and punisher of
sinne vpon the wicked.
2. ^ Visitor i.
161S Brerewood /,a«^. 4- ^^//^. 185 These Jacobites.. be
esteemed to make about 160000 families, or rather 50000,
as Leonard the bishop of Sidon, the popes visiter in thosfc
parts hath recorded. 1691 Baxter Nat. Ch. v. 21 The
Scots had at first a General visiter, that was really a
General Bishop. 1830 Di- Quincey Bentley Wks. 1863 VI,
75 Her Majesty was the true visiter of Trinity College.
3. = Visitor 3.
1591 Greene Conny Catch, iii. 30 Country Gentlemen
haue many visiters both with neere dwelling neighbours,
and frccnds that iourney from farre. 1638 Junius Paint.
Ancients 13 We doe moreover shorten our own lime, fooling
the greatest part of our best houres away among a company
of pratlin^ visiters. 1668 Lady Chaworth in 12//*
Rep. Hist. M'yS. Comm. App. V. 10 She yesterday.. kept
her bed yet admitted visiters in the afternoone. 1717 Swift
What passed in LomL Wks. 1755 III. 1. 184 It was observed
too, that he had few visirers that day. X7 me chastyst
fore my lenyng, I t^onkc my god my grace treuly Of his
gracious vesityng. 1645 Caryl Expos. Job I.,63.7 We may
apply it. .either to Gods visiting of us in afflictions, or in
mercies.
2. On the part of persons, in various senses of
the verb; esp. the action of calling upon others in
a social or friendly way,
c 1374 Chaucer Troylus \\. 41 Yn some lond were al the
game yshcnt, I f that men ferd with love as men do here, . . In
visityng, in forme, or scying here sawis. 1377 Langl. P%
PL B. II, 176 Denes and suddenes, drawe ^ow togideres,..
To here bischopes aboute, abrode in visytynge. c t^fio
Antecrist in Todd Three Treat. Wycli/{iZ$i) 140 J>ei discouinforten
treu men & putten hem in prison for visityngof
cristen men. 1497 Ace. Ld. High Treat. Scot. I. 344 Item,
toane cowpar for mending and visiting of thirpipis,.,viijd.
1530 Palsgk. 285/1 Vysityng, uisitance, uisitation. 1565
Cooper Thesaurus, Visitatio, a visitynge, or commyng to
see.^ 1617 MoRVsoN (tin. \. 234 Our Consuls burning with
desire of returning homeward, appointed the next day for
the visiting of tiie Sepulciier. 1658 Whole Duty Man xvi.
137 Visiting the sick and imprisoned ; by which visiting is
meant.. so coming as to comfort and relieve them, 17*7
Swift To Veiy Yng. Lady Wks. 1755 II. n. 43, 1 hope your
husband will interpose his authority to limit you in the
trade of visiting. 1749 Fielding Tom Jones xiii. iv, Mr?;.
Fitzpatrick,. .though it was a full hour earlier than the
decent time of visiting, received him very civilly. 1806
H. K. White Let. 6 Jan., Visiting and gayety are very
well by way of change, but there is no enjoyment so lasting
as thnt of one's own family. iSao Hyron Blues 11. 8 What
with driving and visiting, dancing and dining. 1890 .SV«H£^f
Gossip XXVI. 68/2 It requires great care before any one
can assert that a plant has disappeared, and some years'
visiting of the station. 1911 Act i 3 Mrs. Hemans
Siege 0/ Valencia iv. (1823) 160, 1 have swept o'er the mountains
of your land, Leaving my traces, as the visitings Of
a i8s» Moir Hymn Night Wind Poet.
Rtorni-s, upon them I
Wks. (1852) II. 379 But not alone to inland solitudes, ..Are
circumscribed thy visitings.
b. Of inlluences affecting the mintl,
c 1449 Pfxock Repr. i. xvii, 96 Thei mowe be verrified in
nianye othere wisis and for manye other visitingis, than
ben the visitingis and the ^iftis of Kunnyng. 1605 Shaks.
Macb. I. V. 46 Stop vp th'accesse and passage to Remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of Nature Shake my fell
purpose. 1807 Wordsw, White Doe i. 332 A Spirit, . . In soft
and breeze-like visitings, Has touched thee. 1834J.H.NEWviKH
Far. Serm. I.ix. 141 Let not those visitings pass away.
1836 Ibid. III. i. 6 They cannot be * as the heathen ' : they
are pursued with gracious visitings, as Jonah when he fled
away. 1867 Parkman Jesuits N. A mer.\\\. (1875) 81 Some
of them seemed to have visitings of real compassion.
4. atlrib.y as visiting acqtutinlance^ dress y rela-
lions, terms f way ; f visiting-bell, ? a bell used in
visiting a sick person ; visiting-book, a book
containing tlie names of persons to be visited;
visiting-card, a small card bearing a person's
name, to be left or presented on paying a visit ;
f visiting-day, a day set apart for receiving visitors
; an at-home day; visiting-list, a list of
persons to be visited ; visiting-society, a society
formed for the purpose of visiting the poor or sick ;
f visiting-ticket, a visiting-card.
1775 Sheridan Rivals iv. i, But ttiey are the last people
I should choose to have a "visiting acquaintance with.
1808 Scott Marm. 11. xix. note^ His [St, Cuthbert's] carrying
on a visiting acquaintance with the Abbess of Coldingham.
1559-3 Inv. Ch. Goods, Staffs, in Ann. Lichfield
(1863) IV. 41 It(e]ni a'vesetingbell, and a peare of sensors of
brasse. x8i8 Lady Morgan Autobiog. (iS.sg) 157 AH my
great and small names in my old French *visiting-book.
18^ Thackeray Van. Fair Ix, Before long Emmy had a
visiting- book, and was driving about regularly in a carriage,
calling upon tetc]. 178a Miss Burni:y Cctr/Y/Vi i. iii, Why,
a ticket [for an assembly] is only a *visiting card with a
name upon it. i8ao Lady Gkanvilt.e Lett. (1894) I. 158
The Duke of Beaufort's pocket was picked of. . his vbiiingcards,
1859 All Year Round No. 30. 79 People are photographed
on their visiting cards. 1899 Daily Ne^vs 26 Jan.
5/3 The New Year's visiting-card . . is one of the survivals of
old-fashioned French politeness. 1709STEELE Tatlerlio.Zo
P3, I had the Misfortune to drop mat my Lady Haughty's
upon her *Visiting-Day. 1717 Prior Dove ix, With one
great Pea! They rap the Door, Like Footmen on a Visiting-
Day. 1768 (^/V/i-), The Visiting Day: a Novel. jZ^ Habits
Gd. Society iv. (new ed.) 177 Shawls,, .belong rather to the
carriage or "visiting dress. 1815 Lady Granvillk Lett.
(1894) I. 368 Sitting in judgment over a *visiting list. 1870
Miss Brii>gman R.Lynne IL iii. 66 Who woulahave been
unexceptionable wives as regarded their dress and their
visiting'list. 1884 Yates Recoil. L 279 '"Visiting relations
had, in the mean time, been established between us and
the Dickens family. 1844 [W. Harness] {title), 'Visiting
Societies and Lay Readers. 1876 Lowell Among my Bks.
Scr. 11. 301 No one had stood on these *visiting terms with
heaven. 1770 Cumberland West Indiani. vi, Here, give
me your direction ; write it upon the back of this *visiting
ticket—Have you a pencil? 1824 Miss L. M. Hawkins
Mem, II. 253 Finding the visiting-ticket of Mr. Harris on
his return home one morning. x8^ Thackeray Virgin.
Ixxxiii, A gigantic footman .. delivered their ladyships'
visiting tickets at our door. 1779 T. Hutchinson Diary
26 Feb., Called on Mrs. Burnet and Colonel Lcland—which
is doing a great deal for me in the "visiting way.
Visiting (vi-zitii)),///. a, [f. Visit v."]
1. That visits ; that pays visits or is engaged in
visiting.
1606 Shaks. Ant. ^ CI. iv, xv. 68 There is nothing left
remarkeablc Beneath the visiting Moone. ijpio Steele
TatlerNo. 151 P 2 The Memory of an old Visiting-Lady is
so filled with Gloves, Silks, and Ribands. 1807 J. Harriott
Struggles through Life II. 41 Should any visiting company
wish to see the infant. . I have known the child brought to
the door of the apartment. 1859 Lever Davenport Dunn
iii, To think you're a visiting governess in an Aldermans'
family. 1895 Daily News 26 Oct. 3/1 None of the visiting
teams were on the winning side,
b. Visiting ant (see quots.).
1855 Orrs Circ. Sci., Org. Nat, II. 394 One of these
specie:^, the Aiia cephaiotes, which inhabits the West
Indies, is there known as the Visiting Ant. c 188a Casseil's
Nat. Hist. V. 382 The Driver Ants, or Visiting Ants, of
Wer.t Africa, generally referred to the species Anomma
arcius. 1899 Mary Kingsley W, African .Stud. i. 27
' These ants are sometimes also called visiting ants', from
their habit of calling in quantities at inconvenient hours on
humanity.
2. That visits officially for the purpose of inspection
or examination.
1713 Gibson Codex xlii. viii. 1009/1 In the Council of
Laodicea, ann. 360, it was Ordained, That no Bishops should
be placed in Country Villages, but only.. Itinerant or
Visiting Presbyters. i8oa James Milit. Dict.j Visiting
Officer^ he whose duty it is to visit the guards, barracks,
messes, hospital, etc. 18x8 Sir S. Romilly in Pari. Debates
xo That the royal prerogative should be interposed.,
between them and the visiting magistrates. 182a Syd.
Smith Prisons Wks. 1859 I. 361 Are visiting justices to
doom such a prisoner to bread and water? 1868 ititle\
The Visiting Justices and the Troublesome Priest.
Vl'Sitment. nonce-wd. [f. Visit z/.-f -ment.]
A visit or visitation.
1754 World No. 62 p 9, I may very shortly send you a
few necessary remarks upon each of these three Visitment?.
Visitor (vi-zitoi). Also 5 visitur, -cure, 6-7
visitour (6 Sc. vesit-, veaatour). [a. AF. visitour
(Gower), = OF. visileor, visitturi^. visiteur)^
f. visiter X.O visit.]
1. One who visits officially for the purpose of
inspection or supervision, in order to prevent or
remove abuses or irregularities ; a. An ecclesiastic,
or a lay commissioner, appointed to visit religious
establishments, churches, etc., for this end, either
at re^nlar intervals or on special occasions,
1426 LvDG. De Guil. Filgr. 23985 Our noble Visitour,
Which doth his peyne and his labour to looke for lucre and
fals guerdoun. cx^oAlph. 7"«/(.S272 | e Abbott, .oppyniie
in J>e chapitr..putt forth all J>ies irispas of Yis yong man,
when jjer visitur was ^er. 1483 Cath, Angl. 402/2 A
Visitoure, refi}rmator proprie inreligione^visitator. « 1513
Fabvan Chron. vii. 416 The maister of j« 'lemplers, with
an other great ruler of the sayd ordre, which was nan;ed
visitour of the same. 1550 Crowley Ep gr, jag 'Ihese
visitours found many stout priestes, but chieflye one That
had sondrye benefices. 1585 Holit:shed's Chron. II. Scotl.
440/1 After they had discharged bishops, they agreed to
haue superintendents, commissioners, and vir.itors. 1628
Coke On Lift. 96 Where a speciall Visitor is appointed
vpon the foundation, the complaint must be made to that
Visitor. 1676 Decge Parson's Counsellor 11. xv. 201 The
Clergy and Religious Houses came to this composition,
every one to pay such a proportion to their visitors to be
freed of that great oppression. 1721 in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ.
VIII. 305 Whatever the Visitor ordains, the Mother
Abbesse and all her Religious shall receive and execute
with respect and obedience. 1731 Neal Hist. Punt. I. 18
The management of which, was committed to the Lord
Cromwcl with the title of Visitor General, 1788 Gibbon
Decl.