The visitation articles of the seventeenth century frequently inquire whether the clerk be of the age of twenty years at least.
Here he looked at the churchwarden and sorrowfully said, "For thirty years I have been to the visitation and always got home drunk; Sally will think I haven't been.
As parish clerk, Fewson attended the Archdeacon's visitation with the churchwardens, whose custom it was on each such occasion to spend about £3 in eating and drinking.
He was excommunicated and posted on the bulletin, [83] as a result of his visitation which I conducted; and there were many very ugly accusations to prove against him, which had been brought up in court.
The archbishop commenced the visitation of his diocese as soon as he became free from the late storms; and he continued it through all the benefices of his clergy, until he reached the island of Mindoro.
The friars in Zamudio's diocese have refused to let him make a visitation among them, although he obtained from the governor a guard of soldiers to protect him.
Bishop Heber in one of his letters from Calcutta says: "I held my firstvisitation this morning at 6 o'clock (!
Another astonishing experience in which the reality at least equals the descriptions, is a visitation of locusts.
Hugh Brady, Bishop of Meath, a native of his diocese and a man of Irish race, though a sincere Protestant, had lately made a parochial visitation of his own diocese.
Her meteoric visitation had drawn these two closer together than they had been since schoolroom days.
Wearied out, with disappointment and futile effort, he fell asleep--praying for a dream visitationto revive his shaken faith.
Whether she had a like visitation in a milder form, is more than I can say; but I hope with all my heart she had; for then, as the Southern tale recites, God placed her hand in mine.
It was a visitation unknown in our foggy plains, scoffed at by our prosy race, but known full well in Southern climes, as the sunstroke of love.
The visitation of the churches was resolved upon, and Melancthon was commissioned to draw up the necessary instructions.
This mysterious phenomenon prolonged its frightful visitationuntil the 3d September.
British Museum is the account of a supernatural visitation to Rye in 1607.
It has a right of visitation and of search of vessels that apparently carry our flag.
They may say--We will tolerate the aggression by public armed vessels on the seas, and our vessels shall yield the right of visitation and search to them.
If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.
An example of this unsparing visitation of offences occurred not long after the settlement of New South Wales had commenced.
John Thaneford should have had such definite foreknowledge that the visitation in question was impending.
As for the rest of it, we may as well fall back on our coroner's verdict: Dead by the visitation of God.
It was unanimous and to the effect that Francis Hildebrand Graeme had come to his death through the visitation of God.
And so we come back to the verdict of the coroner's jury: Dead by the visitation of God.
I don't believe we can do more than return a non-committal verdict--dead by the visitation of God, or something like that.
It was found, during the last visitation of cholera, that the fumigation of houses with sulphur had a remarkable efficacy in preventing the spread of the contagion.
Ministers of apostate churches found themselves without communication with God, either through the visitation of angels or direct revelation.
From believing that the ministrations of angels had forever ceased, they turned to the belief that a number of angels had ministered to Joseph Smith, and that in the future the visitation of angels to men would be still more frequent.
All the stipulations I make with you for doing your visitation is, that you come over to Wearmouth soon after your return, for you will be very entertaining between truth and lying.
An earlier visitation had occurred in 1618, when the grandmother of the said John, a certain Grace Oxenham, had yielded up her soul into the hands of her Maker.
Now, she who is my partner in this visitation lies dangerously sick not far from hence.
On the other hand, the Visitationof Cathedrals, ordered and undertaken during the reign of Edward VI.
For a time he resisted the metropolitan visitation of Archbishop Courtney, notwithstanding that the Bishop of Exeter had been forced to yield in a similar contest, but when the archbishop excommunicated him he was compelled to submit.
Heron was still waiting at the door, even whilst de Batz wondered what this nocturnal visitation would reveal to him of atrocity and of outrage.
But the visitation and ravages of both are somewhat under control, and the experience bequeathed by each gloomy visitation has added to the facilities for checking its recurrence.
In the margin: "Write to the governor to have this visitation carried out in the pacified country, and where there is no obstacle, conformably to the ordinance.
Agurto undertook a visitationin Leyte and Samar, but could not complete it on account of those islands being invaded by pirates from Mindanao.
One, a deplorable apprehension that this girl she had come to love so dearly was assailed by some new sudden visitation of suffering.
As I was undetermined whether I should place my daughter at the Visitation of Turin, or take some other course; I was exceedingly surprised, at a time I least expected it, to see Father La Combe arrive from Verceil.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "visitation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
