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visiting |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Visit \Vis"it\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Visited}; p. pr & vb n. {Visiting}.] [F. visiter, L. visitare fr visere to go to see to visit, fr videre visum to see See {Vision.}] 1. To go or come to see as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon as the physician visits his patient. 2. Specifically: To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge. 3. (Script.) To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath. [God] hath visited and redeemed his people. --Like i. 68. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Visiting \Vis"it*ing\, a. & vb n. from {Visit}. {Visiting ant}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Driver ant}, under {Driver}. {Visiting book}, a book in which a record of visits received, made and to be made is kept. --Thackeray. {Visiting card}. See under {Card}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: visiting adj : staying temporarily; "a visiting foreigner"; "guest conductor" [syn: {guest(a)}] n : the activity of making visits; "visiting with the neighbors filled her afternoons"
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