visitantn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈvɪzᵻt(ə)nt/, U.S.

/ˈvɪzətnt/

Etymology: < French visitant, present participle of visiter, or < Latin vīsitant-, vīsitans present participle of vīsitāre to visit.

A. n.

a. One who pays a visit to another; a visitor.Very common in 17–18th cent.; now rare or Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > visitor

comerc1390

repairera1464

resorter1533

visitant1601

visitor1728

visiter1843

society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [noun]

resorter1533

comer1576

visitor1576

visiter1592

visitant1601

caller1786

visitress1827

visiting fireman1926

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. i. sig. D^v He has a ritch wrought Waste-coate to intertaine his visitants in.

1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine ii. i. sig. D2^v For the most part, she hath kept her priuate Chamber, No visitants admitted.

1664 S. Pepys Diary 22 Nov. (1971) V. 328 Being sick and full of visitants, we could not speak with him.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 90 No Palace, with a lofty Gate, he wants, T' admit the Tydes of early Visitants.

1722 F. Atterbury Let. in A. Pope Corr. 16 Mar. (1956) II. 107 As a Visitant, a Lodger, a Friend..you are always welcome to me.

1760 S. Johnson Idler 22 Mar. 89 His Chamber was filled by Visitants, eager to catch the Dictates of Experience.

1825 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) I. v. 147 She calmly explained to her visitant the motives of her conduct.

1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 264 It is not of guests that we complain, but of endless, purposeless visitants.

1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger I. xi. 81 He was shy and bashful..and really appeared agitated and afraid of his white-faced visitants.

in extended use.1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 260 The services rendered by such visitants [sc. insects] will be understood when we have described all the parts of a flower.1862 R. Vaughan Eng. Nonconformity 357 Rulers who deserve that an avenger should be upon their path, cannot always resist the impression that such a visitant may be at hand.1868 W. E. Gladstone Ecce Homo i. 7 To the absolutely stereotyped forms both of faith and scepticism,..the author of ‘Ecce Homo’ has been a most unacceptable visitant.

b. Applied to supernatural beings or agencies, etc., esp. as revealing themselves to mortals.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > [noun] > that reveals itself to humans

visitant1667

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 225 Adam..to Eve, While the great Visitant approachd, thus spake.

1782 J. Brown Compend. View Nat. & Revealed Relig. ii. ii. 133 We are commended to hear him, as infinitely superior to Moses and Elias, his then visitants.

1813 S. T. Coleridge Remorse iii. i. 36 Thou sainted spirit, Burst on our sight, a passing visitant!

1847 B. Disraeli Tancred II. ii. xi. 254 I would ask those mountains..why they no longer receive heavenly visitants!

1876 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (ed. 5) vii. 248 The spiritual visitant, indeed, which rejoiced the wise poet of Ascra, was not the Paraclete of Jesus.

c. One who visits from charitable motives.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > visiting for philanthropic purposes > philanthropic visitor

visiterc1384

visitorc1430

visitant1661

prison visitor1837

slummer1887

slum-sister1890

society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [noun] > to sick or distressed

visitant1661

1661 G. Wither Improv. Imprisonment (title page) A few Crums & Scraps Lately found in a Prisoners-Basket at Newgate, And Saved together, by a Visitant of Oppressed Prisoners.

d. One who makes a short stay at a friend's house.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] > in another's house

strangerc1400

visitor1576

visiter1592

house guest1609

sojourner1609

visitant1769

house party1827

cuckoo1872

1769 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) III. 365 I found a young gentlewoman there, a visitant.

1823 W. Scott Peveril I. xi. 288 An attachment, which lulled..to pleasing dreams, though of a character so different, her charge and her visitant.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. ii. ii. 136 She was transferred from the little chamber,..to an apartment..usually appropriated to the regular Christmas visitant, the Dowager Countess of Chipperton.

a. One who visits some place or object of interest.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > sight-seer

visitant1677

sightseer1834

rubberneck1894

rubbernecker1898

grand tourer1926

looky-loo1978

1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 238 Being often used by way of sport to wet the Visitants of the Grot.

1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 382 Visitants of the Library.

1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 88 (note) Which fact the visitant is given to understand from a long inscription upon a brass plate.

1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 194/1 Some of the earliest and most extensive specimens of painted glass, well worthy of the attention of the visitant.

1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping (1899) 61 This gallery had frequent visitants.

b. One who visits a place, shrine, etc., from religious motives.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > pilgrimage > [noun] > one who makes

pilgrimc1225

palmerc1300

pelerina1350

pilgrimera1475

peregrine1570

pilgrimagerc1650

visitant1698

palmer-man1885

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 45 Some of the Visitants count it meritorious to be trod to death under a weighty Chariot of Iron.

a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George III (1845) I. x. 147 The father would accept no money from the various visitants, for which he was promised an adequate recompense by the chiefs of his sect.

1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso xxv. 20 Behold the peer of mickle might, That makes Galicia throng'd with visitants.

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xvi. 228 The caution is said to be as applicable to the visitants of Jerusalem, as to those of Mecca.

c. One who visits a strange town or country; a stranger who spends a short time in a place; a temporary resident.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun]

sojourner14..

surgyon14..

sojournerc1460

sojourantc1475

sojournant1477

perhendinancer1489

lodger1511

indweller1535

transient1740

visitant1751

perendinant1886

one-nighter1923

1751 Mem. Lady of Quality in T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxviii. 160 Ghent..was..much crowded with these new visitants.

1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 24 The lodgings for visitants were paltry, though expensive.

1801 J. Jones tr. T. Bugge Trav. French Republic i. 22 This town has very little to invite the eye of a visitant.

1823 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 361 The paper..was not written by a Virginian, but a visitant from another State.

1857 G. M. Musgrave Pilgr. Dauphiné I. ii. 34 A splendid specimen..was continually surrounded by the French visitants.

1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 205 To show..the absurdity of a new visitant pretending to hold any opinion whatever on such subjects.

d. One who enters a country in hostile fashion; an invader.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > attacker > [noun] > invader

invasor1443

invader1549

inroader1611

visitant1765

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > harmful or hostile > one who

invasor1443

invader1549

visitant1765

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 93 The antient and christian inhabitants of the island retired to those natural intrenchments, for protection from their pagan visitants.

3. A thing which comes to one in a casual or temporary manner.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > person or thing that comes by chance

chance-comer1667

visitant1743

come-by-chance1876

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 43 When your Neighbour's Knel (Rude Visitant!) knocks hard at your dull Sense.

a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) II. 135 However irregular we find the wind.., they have it a more constant and more grateful visitant.

1833 W. Whewell in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 160 Digby..is still ill of a rheumatic fever, his not unusual visitant.

1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies xvi Chasing away sleep and making the faint daylight a welcome visitant.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) III. 297 I am never in that mood of sadness which used to be my frequent visitant.

4. A migratory bird, etc., as temporarily frequenting a particular locality.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > migrating animal

seven sleepers1750

migrater1770

visitant1774

winterer1831

visiter1843

visitor1859

immigrant1880

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 29 Such are our visitants. With regard to those which..breed here [etc.].

1781 J. Logan Cuckoo in Poems 2 Delightful Visitant! with thee I hail the time of flowers.

1834 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Islands I. 19 Those [birds] which come in the spring and depart in the autumn are called summer visitants.

1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 97 Fresh-water fishes may be..merely visitants from the ocean for the purpose of depositing their spawn.

1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 13 The Hooded Crow..being..in some localities a winter visitant only, in others a resident.

B. adj.

Paying a visit or visits; having the position or character of a visitor.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [adjective] > visiting

visitinga1616

visitatinga1625

visitant1653

society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [adjective]

visitinga1616

visitatinga1625

visitant1653

calling1846

1653 H. Cogan tr. N. N. Scarlet Gown 67 One shall never see any visitant Coches there, he being no otherwise accounted of, then as of a forelorn Cardinal.

1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle iii. 33 I begin to have a knowledge of the visitant Kinsman that us'd to molest us.

1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. vii. 289 An intimate Devil, or a Devil visitant.

1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy I. 125 The snappish housekeeper gives short answers to the poor visitant niece.

1807 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 136 He knew the Rocks which Angels haunt On the Mountains visitant.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 59 And Edith's everywhere; And Edith ever visitant with him.

1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. viii. 281 Mr. Melvill was entirely amiable in the Church visitant, though not formidable in the Church militant.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	visitant
释义	visitantn.adj. Brit. /ˈvɪzᵻt(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈvɪzətnt/ Etymology: < French visitant, present participle of visiter, or < Latin vīsitant-, vīsitans present participle of vīsitāre to visit. A. n. 1. a. One who pays a visit to another; a visitor.Very common in 17–18th cent.; now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > visitor comerc1390 repairera1464 resorter1533 visitant1601 visitor1728 visiter1843 society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [noun] resorter1533 comer1576 visitor1576 visiter1592 visitant1601 caller1786 visitress1827 visiting fireman1926 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. i. sig. D^v He has a ritch wrought Waste-coate to intertaine his visitants in. View more context for this quotation 1623 P. Massinger Duke of Millaine ii. i. sig. D2^v For the most part, she hath kept her priuate Chamber, No visitants admitted. 1664 S. Pepys Diary 22 Nov. (1971) V. 328 Being sick and full of visitants, we could not speak with him. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 90 No Palace, with a lofty Gate, he wants, T' admit the Tydes of early Visitants. 1722 F. Atterbury Let. in A. Pope Corr. 16 Mar. (1956) II. 107 As a Visitant, a Lodger, a Friend..you are always welcome to me. 1760 S. Johnson Idler 22 Mar. 89 His Chamber was filled by Visitants, eager to catch the Dictates of Experience. 1825 M. M. Sherwood Lady of Manor (ed. 2) I. v. 147 She calmly explained to her visitant the motives of her conduct. 1826 C. Lamb in New Monthly Mag. 16 264 It is not of guests that we complain, but of endless, purposeless visitants. 1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger I. xi. 81 He was shy and bashful..and really appeared agitated and afraid of his white-faced visitants. in extended use.1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 260 The services rendered by such visitants [sc. insects] will be understood when we have described all the parts of a flower.1862 R. Vaughan Eng. Nonconformity 357 Rulers who deserve that an avenger should be upon their path, cannot always resist the impression that such a visitant may be at hand.1868 W. E. Gladstone Ecce Homo i. 7 To the absolutely stereotyped forms both of faith and scepticism,..the author of ‘Ecce Homo’ has been a most unacceptable visitant. b. Applied to supernatural beings or agencies, etc., esp. as revealing themselves to mortals. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > [noun] > that reveals itself to humans visitant1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 225 Adam..to Eve, While the great Visitant approachd, thus spake. View more context for this quotation 1782 J. Brown Compend. View Nat. & Revealed Relig. ii. ii. 133 We are commended to hear him, as infinitely superior to Moses and Elias, his then visitants. 1813 S. T. Coleridge Remorse iii. i. 36 Thou sainted spirit, Burst on our sight, a passing visitant! 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred II. ii. xi. 254 I would ask those mountains..why they no longer receive heavenly visitants! 1876 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma (ed. 5) vii. 248 The spiritual visitant, indeed, which rejoiced the wise poet of Ascra, was not the Paraclete of Jesus. c. One who visits from charitable motives. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > visiting for philanthropic purposes > philanthropic visitor visiterc1384 visitorc1430 visitant1661 prison visitor1837 slummer1887 slum-sister1890 society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [noun] > to sick or distressed visitant1661 1661 G. Wither Improv. Imprisonment (title page) A few Crums & Scraps Lately found in a Prisoners-Basket at Newgate, And Saved together, by a Visitant of Oppressed Prisoners. d. One who makes a short stay at a friend's house. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] > in another's house strangerc1400 visitor1576 visiter1592 house guest1609 sojourner1609 visitant1769 house party1827 cuckoo1872 1769 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) III. 365 I found a young gentlewoman there, a visitant. 1823 W. Scott Peveril I. xi. 288 An attachment, which lulled..to pleasing dreams, though of a character so different, her charge and her visitant. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. ii. ii. 136 She was transferred from the little chamber,..to an apartment..usually appropriated to the regular Christmas visitant, the Dowager Countess of Chipperton. 2. a. One who visits some place or object of interest. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > sight-seer visitant1677 sightseer1834 rubberneck1894 rubbernecker1898 grand tourer1926 looky-loo1978 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 238 Being often used by way of sport to wet the Visitants of the Grot. 1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 382 Visitants of the Library. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 88 (note) Which fact the visitant is given to understand from a long inscription upon a brass plate. 1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 194/1 Some of the earliest and most extensive specimens of painted glass, well worthy of the attention of the visitant. 1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping (1899) 61 This gallery had frequent visitants. b. One who visits a place, shrine, etc., from religious motives. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > pilgrimage > [noun] > one who makes pilgrimc1225 palmerc1300 pelerina1350 pilgrimera1475 peregrine1570 pilgrimagerc1650 visitant1698 palmer-man1885 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 45 Some of the Visitants count it meritorious to be trod to death under a weighty Chariot of Iron. a1797 H. Walpole Mem. George III (1845) I. x. 147 The father would accept no money from the various visitants, for which he was promised an adequate recompense by the chiefs of his sect. 1812 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Paradiso xxv. 20 Behold the peer of mickle might, That makes Galicia throng'd with visitants. 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xvi. 228 The caution is said to be as applicable to the visitants of Jerusalem, as to those of Mecca. c. One who visits a strange town or country; a stranger who spends a short time in a place; a temporary resident. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > temporary inhabitant > [noun] sojourner14.. surgyon14.. sojournerc1460 sojourantc1475 sojournant1477 perhendinancer1489 lodger1511 indweller1535 transient1740 visitant1751 perendinant1886 one-nighter1923 1751 Mem. Lady of Quality in T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle III. lxxxviii. 160 Ghent..was..much crowded with these new visitants. 1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 24 The lodgings for visitants were paltry, though expensive. 1801 J. Jones tr. T. Bugge Trav. French Republic i. 22 This town has very little to invite the eye of a visitant. 1823 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 361 The paper..was not written by a Virginian, but a visitant from another State. 1857 G. M. Musgrave Pilgr. Dauphiné I. ii. 34 A splendid specimen..was continually surrounded by the French visitants. 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 205 To show..the absurdity of a new visitant pretending to hold any opinion whatever on such subjects. d. One who enters a country in hostile fashion; an invader. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > attacker > [noun] > invader invasor1443 invader1549 inroader1611 visitant1765 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > harmful or hostile > one who invasor1443 invader1549 visitant1765 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 93 The antient and christian inhabitants of the island retired to those natural intrenchments, for protection from their pagan visitants. 3. A thing which comes to one in a casual or temporary manner. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > person or thing that comes by chance chance-comer1667 visitant1743 come-by-chance1876 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 43 When your Neighbour's Knel (Rude Visitant!) knocks hard at your dull Sense. a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) II. 135 However irregular we find the wind.., they have it a more constant and more grateful visitant. 1833 W. Whewell in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 160 Digby..is still ill of a rheumatic fever, his not unusual visitant. 1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies xvi Chasing away sleep and making the faint daylight a welcome visitant. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) III. 297 I am never in that mood of sadness which used to be my frequent visitant. 4. A migratory bird, etc., as temporarily frequenting a particular locality. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by habits or actions > [noun] > migrating animal seven sleepers1750 migrater1770 visitant1774 winterer1831 visiter1843 visitor1859 immigrant1880 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 29 Such are our visitants. With regard to those which..breed here [etc.]. 1781 J. Logan Cuckoo in Poems 2 Delightful Visitant! with thee I hail the time of flowers. 1834 R. Mudie Feathered Tribes Brit. Islands I. 19 Those [birds] which come in the spring and depart in the autumn are called summer visitants. 1883 Official Catal. Internat. Fisheries Exhib. (ed. 4) 97 Fresh-water fishes may be..merely visitants from the ocean for the purpose of depositing their spawn. 1894 R. B. Sharpe Hand-bk. Birds Great Brit. I. 13 The Hooded Crow..being..in some localities a winter visitant only, in others a resident. B. adj. Paying a visit or visits; having the position or character of a visitor. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [adjective] > visiting visitinga1616 visitatinga1625 visitant1653 society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [adjective] visitinga1616 visitatinga1625 visitant1653 calling1846 1653 H. Cogan tr. N. N. Scarlet Gown 67 One shall never see any visitant Coches there, he being no otherwise accounted of, then as of a forelorn Cardinal. 1677 T. D'Urfey Madam Fickle iii. 33 I begin to have a knowledge of the visitant Kinsman that us'd to molest us. 1726 D. Defoe Polit. Hist. Devil ii. vii. 289 An intimate Devil, or a Devil visitant. 1794 H. L. Piozzi Brit. Synonymy I. 125 The snappish housekeeper gives short answers to the poor visitant niece. 1807 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 136 He knew the Rocks which Angels haunt On the Mountains visitant. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Aylmer's Field in Enoch Arden, etc. 59 And Edith's everywhere; And Edith ever visitant with him. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. viii. 281 Mr. Melvill was entirely amiable in the Church visitant, though not formidable in the Church militant. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1601
随便看	to have a look round to have a loss in to have a loss of to have a lot on one's plate to have a lot to answer for to have a mad on to have a maidenhead to have a matter against to have a matter in scanning to have a matter with to have a maw to have a maw to to have a miff to have a mike to have a mind to have a mind above buttons to have a mind of one's own to have a miss of to have a moan to have a moment to have a monk on to have a monkey on to have a monkey on one's back to have a month's mind to have a moody