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▪ I. visiting, vbl. n.|ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ|
[f. visit v.]
The action of coming or going to a person or place for some special purpose.
1. On the part of supernatural beings, esp. the Deity in order to comfort, try, or punish persons.
a1300Cursor M. 6189 Ioseph..praid þe folk and badd Þat quen godd sent þaim visiting, Þai suld his banes þeþen bring. Ibid. 11266 Feird war þaa hirdes for þat light..For þai sagh neuer..sli visiting be-for þat night. 1382Wyclif Jer. li. 18 Veyne ben the werkus, and wrthi scornyng; in tyme of ther visityng thei shul pershe. c1425Audelay XI Pains Hell 359 in O.E. Misc. 222 God haþ me chastyst fore my leuyng, I þonke my god my grace treuly Of his gracious vesityng. 1645Caryl Expos. Job I. 637 We may apply it..either to Gods visiting of us in afflictions, or in mercies.
2. a. On the part of persons, in various senses of the verb; esp. the action of calling upon others in a social or friendly way.
c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 41 Yn some lond were al the game yshent, If that men ferd with love as men do here,..In visityng, in forme, or seying here sawis. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. ii. 176 Denes and suddenes, drawe ȝow togideres,..To bere bischopes aboute, abrode in visytynge. c1380Antecrist in Todd Three Treat. Wyclif (1851) 140 Þei discoumforten treu men & putten hem in prison for visityng of cristen men. 1497Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 344 Item, to ane cowpar for mending and visiting of thir pipis,..viijd. 1530Palsgr. 285/1 Vysityng, uisitance, uisitation. 1565Cooper Thesaurus, Visitatio, a visitynge, or commyng to see. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 234 Our Consuls burning with desire of returning homeward, appointed the next day for the visiting of the Sepulcher. 1658Whole Duty Man xvi. 137 Visiting the sick and imprisoned; by which visiting is meant..so coming as to comfort and relieve them. 1727Swift To Very Yng. Lady Wks. 1755 II. ii. 43, I hope your husband will interpose his authority to limit you in the trade of visiting. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xiii. iv, Mrs. Fitzpatrick,..though it was a full hour earlier than the decent time of visiting, received him very civilly. 1806H. K. White Let. 6 Jan., Visiting and gayety are very well by way of change, but there is no enjoyment so lasting as that of one's own family. 1820Byron Blues ii. 8 What with driving and visiting, dancing and dining. 1890Science-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. 1911Act 1 & 2 Geo. V, c. 55 §14 Every such rule relating to the visiting of insured persons by visitors appointed by the society.
b. An instance of this; a visit.
a1586Sidney Ps. xli. iii, Their courteous visitings are courting lyes. 1628in Foster Eng. Factories India (1909) III. 211 By often visitings, presents, and invitacions. 1754Richardson Grandison (1781) VII. xi. 54 We shall be favoured with the company of Lord and Lady L. as soon as her visits and visitings are over. 1770Wilkes Corr. (1805) IV. 36, I begin to recover the fatigue of visitings and great dinners, which I abominate. 1817M. Edgeworth Ormond xvi, Say I'm too old and clumsy for morning visitings.
3. a. Of things. (Cf. visit v. 10 c.)
1382Wyclif Prov. xix. 23 In plenteuousnesse it shal abide stille, withoute visiting of the werste. 1822Mrs. Hemans Siege of Valencia iv. (1823) 160, I have swept o'er the mountains of your land, Leaving my traces, as the visitings Of storms, upon them! a1851Moir Hymn Night Wind Poet. Wks. (1852) II. 379 But not alone to inland solitudes,..Are circumscribed thy visitings.
b. Of influences affecting the mind.
c1449Pecock Repr. i. xvii. 96 Thei mowe be verrified in manye othere wisis and for manye other visitingis, than ben the visitingis and the ȝiftis of Kunnyng. 1605Shakes. Macb. i. v. 46 Stop vp th'accesse and passage to Remorse, That no compunctious visitings of Nature Shake my fell purpose. 1807Wordsw. White Doe i. 332 A Spirit,..In soft and breeze-like visitings, Has touched thee. 1834J. H. Newman Par. Serm. I. ix. 141 Let not those visitings pass away. 1836Ibid. III. i. 6 They cannot be ‘as the heathen’: they are pursued with gracious visitings, as Jonah when he fled away. 1867Parkman Jesuits N. Amer. vii. (1875) 81 Some of them seemed to have visitings of real compassion.
4. attrib., as visiting acquaintance, visiting dress, visiting relations, visiting terms, visiting way; † visiting-bell, ? a bell used in visiting a sick person; visiting-book, (a) a book containing the names of persons to be visited; (b) = visitors' book s.v. visitor 6; visiting-card, (a) a small card bearing a person's name, to be left or presented on paying a visit; (b) in (orig. Mil.) slang phr. to leave one's visiting-card, to leave unpleasant evidence of having been at a place; † visiting-day, a day set apart for receiving visitors; an at-home day; visiting hours, hours when visitors may call, spec. to see a person in a hospital or other institution; visiting-list, a list of persons to be visited; visiting rights, the right to pay or receive visits (to or from a child in the custody of a divorced spouse) or to receive them (while in an institution of any kind); visiting-society, a society formed for the purpose of visiting the poor or sick; † visiting-ticket, a visiting-card.
1775Sheridan Rivals iv. i, But they are the last people I should choose to have a *visiting acquaintance with. 1808Scott Marm. ii. xix. note, His [St. Cuthbert's] carrying on a visiting acquaintance with the Abbess of Coldingham.
1552–3Inv. Ch. Goods, Staffs. in Ann. Lichfield (1863) IV. 41 It[e]m a *veseting bell, and a peare of sensors of brasse.
1818Lady Morgan Autobiog. (1859) 157 All my great and small names in my old French *visiting-book. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lv. 500 The Bishop went and wrote his name in the visiting-book at Gaunt House that very day. Ibid. lx, Before long Emmy had a visiting-book, and was driving about regularly in a carriage, calling upon [etc].
1782F. Burney Cecilia i. iii, Why, a ticket [for an assembly] is only a *visiting card with a name upon it. 1820Lady Granville Lett. (1894) I. 158 The Duke of Beaufort's pocket was picked of..his visiting-cards. 1859All Year Round No. 30. 79 People are photographed on their visiting cards. 1899Daily News 26 Jan. 5/3 The New Year's visiting-card..is one of the survivals of old-fashioned French politeness. 1945Partridge Dict. R.A.F. Slang 60 Visiting-card, a bomb. Mostly in Leave one's visiting card... As the civilian drops visiting cards into tray or salver, so the airman drops bombs on..enemy⁓occupied territory. 1953‘E. Crispin’ Fen Country (1979) 68 All he had to do was to..leave his visiting card [sc. an explosive device] and collect his fee. 1972V. Canning Rainbird Pattern vi. 116 He should have brought Albert [sc. the dog] in from the car, he at least could have left a visiting card in self-defence.
1709Steele Tatler No. 80 ⁋3, I had the Misfortune to drop in at my Lady Haughty's upon her *Visiting-Day. 1717Prior Dove ix, With one great Peal They rap the Door, Like Footmen on a Visiting-Day. 1768(title), The Visiting Day: a Novel.
1825E. Weeton Jrnl. 20 June (1969) II. 397, I am..as neat in my every day apparel, as any of my acquaintances; they many of them exceed me in *visiting dresses. 1859Habits Gd. Society iv. (new ed.) 177 Shawls,..belong rather to the carriage or visiting dress.
1851London at Table i. 36 A cigar is not the indispensable companion of *visiting hours. 1897Scribner's Mag. Sept. 384/1 Formal visiting-hours were ignored in the village of Sewanee. 1947‘G. Orwell’ Let. 31 Dec. in Coll. Ess. (1968) IV. 386 I'd love it if you did come & see me... They don't seem very lavish with their visiting hours... I've only been in the hospital abt 10 days. 1979‘D. Kyle’ Green River High ii. 15, I scribbled a note giving hospital visiting hours.
1825Lady Granville Lett. (1894) I. 368 Sitting in judgment over a *visiting list. 1870M. Bridgman R. Lynne II. iii. 66 Who would have been unexceptionable wives as regarded their dress and their visiting-list.
1884Yates Recoll. I. 279 *Visiting relations had, in the mean time, been established between us and the Dickens family.
1971Deb. House of Commons (Canada) 14 Dec. 10 460/1 Has the minister or his department investigated allegations that *visiting rights were denied to members of the Black United Front? 1972H. Kemelman Monday the Rabbi took Off xxiv. 159, I was divorced from his mother—he was ten at the time—I had visiting rights, of course. 1982G. Wagner Children of Empire viii. 138 All the homes were surrounded by high walls to keep intruders out and the children in. Visiting rights were restricted.
1844[W. Harness] (title), *Visiting Societies and Lay Readers.
1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 301 No one had stood on these *visiting terms with heaven.
1770Cumberland West Indian i. vi, Here, give me your direction; write it upon the back of this *visiting ticket—Have you a pencil? 1824L. M. Hawkins Mem. II. 253 Finding the visiting-ticket of Mr. Harris on his return home one morning. 1859Thackeray Virgin. lxxxiii, A gigantic footman..delivered their ladyships' visiting tickets at our door.
1779T. Hutchinson Diary 26 Feb., Called on Mrs. Burnet and Colonel Leland—which is doing a great deal for me in the *visiting way.
▪ II. visiting, ppl. a.|ˈvɪzɪtɪŋ|
[f. visit v.]
1. a. That visits; that pays visits or is engaged in visiting.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iv. xv. 68 There is nothing left remarkeable Beneath the visiting Moone. 1710Steele Tatler No. 151 ⁋2 The Memory of an old Visiting-Lady is so filled with Gloves, Silks, and Ribands. 1807J. 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. 1859Lever Davenport Dunn iii, To think you're a visiting governess in an Aldermans' family. 1895Daily News 26 Oct. 3/1 None of the visiting teams were on the winning side.
b. visiting ant (see quots.).
1855Orr's Circ. Sci., Org. Nat. II. 394 One of these species, the Atta cephalotes, which inhabits the West Indies, is there known as the Visiting Ant. c1882Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 382 The Driver Ants, or Visiting Ants, of West Africa, generally referred to the species Anomma arceus. 1899M. 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.
c. visiting fireman (U.S. slang): a person given especially cordial treatment while visiting an organization or place; a tourist expected to spend freely.
[1855Sun (Baltimore) 25 Oct. 1/6 A company of firemen from Rochester, N.Y.,..continue to receive the attentions of their brother firemen of Baltimore... This evening the visiting firemen will be the guests of the Washington Hose Company.] 1926S. Lewis Mantrap xxi. 265, I..couldn't keep my hooks off any he-male that blows into town with the visiting firemen! 1936H. Bernstein Choose Bright Morning ii. 20 He never sees people who might have legitimate business with him... But he receives all the visiting firemen. 1945H. S. Truman in M. Truman Harry S. Truman (1972) x. 202 Naturally got pointed out as the visiting fireman and had a kind of reception between acts and afterwards. 1962A. Davison In Wake of Gemini 115 Members of the firm, whose business it was to look after visiting firemen, had the same happy knack. 1964Economist 25 Jan. 313/2 The marked⁓up tickets are usually sold to ‘visiting firemen’. 1972K. Benton Spy in Chancery i. 19 Don't they know the form for visiting firemen?.. As the British delegate..I shall make a courtesy visit to the Embassy.
d. visiting fellow, visiting lecturer, visiting professor: an academic who accepts an invitation to work at another institution for a fixed term; so visiting fellowship, etc.
1950Univ. London Gaz. 28 Oct. 178 (heading) Appointment of Visiting Professor of Belgian Studies. Ibid., The Visiting Professorship of Belgian Studies. 1960A. Huxley Let. 12 Nov. (1969) 898, I am here for the moment working as a Visiting Professor at MIT. 1962St. Edmund Hall Mag. 1961–2 3 Mr. Allen was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Iowa. 1963Cambridge Univ. Reporter 24 Apr. 1450 The Board of Managers of the Smuts Memorial Fund invite applications for Smuts Visiting Fellowships in Commonwealth Studies. Ibid., The emoluments of a Visiting Fellow will be a sum not exceeding {pstlg}1,500. 1973Oxf. Mag. 1 June 2/2 Professor Levitch..has accepted a Visiting Fellowship at University [College]. 1980A. Coppel Hastings Conspiracy viii. 59 Langton enjoyed a visiting lectureship at the London School of Economics. 1980M. Drabble Middle Ground 156 A visiting professor..on his way to an excavation. 1982C. Monteith in A. Thwaite Larkin at Sixty 41 All Souls—a College where he later stayed in his own right as a Visiting Fellow.
2. That visits officially for the purpose of inspection or examination.
1713Gibson 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. 1802James Milit. Dict., Visiting Officer, he whose duty it is to visit the guards, barracks, messes, hospital, etc. 1818Sir S. Romilly in Parl. Debates 30 That the royal prerogative should be interposed..between them and the visiting magistrates. 1822Syd. Smith Prisons Wks. 1859 I. 361 Are visiting justices to doom such a prisoner to bread and water? 1868(title), The Visiting Justices and the Troublesome Priest. |