单词 | visitatorial |
释义 | visitatorialadj. 1. Pertaining to, connected with, involving or implying, official visitation: a. Of power, authority, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [adjective] > involving visitation visitatory1651 visitatorial1688 visiting1713 1688 N. Johnston (title) The King's Visitatorial Power asserted. Being an impartial relation of the late visitation of St. Mary Magdalen College in Oxford. 1711 R. Bentley Let. in Corr. (1842) I. 417 The Crown has, for a century and half, been in sole possession of the Visitatorial power. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 470 In one of our colleges, (wherein the bishop of that diocese..has immemorially exercised visitatorial authority). 1770 (title) The Conduct of..the Lord Bishop of Winchester..with brief Observations on visitatorial Power. 1834 Edinb. Rev. 58 476 Deriving the visitatorial power from the property of the donor. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 90 The enactment which annexed to the crown an almost boundless visitatorial authority over the Church. 1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. xiii. 596 The visitatorial jurisdiction by which the first..regulated, and remodelled the second. b. With other nouns. ΚΠ 1771 Gentleman's Mag. 41 19 When I wrote my remarks upon the defence of the visitatorial decision I was ignorant of the Presidents of Magdalene College being favoured with the indulgence you mention. 1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 53 The Pope..left the visitatorial question undecided. 1884 Manch. Examiner 16 May 4/7 In his visitatorial address to the churchwardens..Mr. Chancellor Christie went a little out of his way. 1890 Sir G. F. Duckett Visit. Eng. Cluniac Found. 5 Formulæ for visitatorial duties. 2. Having the power of visitation; exercising authority of this kind. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [adjective] > superintending superintendent1566 supervising1594 architectonical1595 supervisiting1615 superintending1625 architectonic1678 supervisory1815 superintendential1838 supervisal1838 visitatorial1880 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [adjective] > having the power of visiting visitatorial1880 1880 Daily News 10 Nov. 5/3 He [a professor at Oxford] may be brought before a Visitatorial Board, admonished, fined, and deprived. 1881 Nature 17 Mar. 471/2 Leave of absence granted by the visitatorial boards. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1688 |
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