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"
The Bishop comes officially at least every three years (usually annually) to represent to us the wider church, to preach and celebrate the Eucharist, and to check on the health of the congregation and clergy
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"
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
An opportunity for survivors and friends to view the deceased in private usually in a special room within the funeral home
Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment
The right of the non-custodial parent to visit or spend time with his or her child(ren)
People sometimes refer humorously to a visit from someone, especially from someone in authority, as a visitation. They had another visitation from Essex police
{i} 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