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Definition of "visitatorial" []

  • Of or relating to an official visitor or visit. (adjective)
  • Having the right or power of visitation. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "visitatorial" in a sentence
  • "As a creature of the State, for example, corporations traditionally lack 4th-amendment rights to be free of unlawful search, due to the rather expansive visitatorial powers of their constitutor, which have been upheld."
  • "“Much more danger of arbitrary action has arisen” under administrators, he warned, “than exercise of the visitatorial jurisdiction by the courts could possibly carry with it.”"
  • "As 'Supreme Head of the Church' Henry VIII. renewed the visitatorial authority of the"
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