c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde 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.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. ii. 176 Denes and suddenes, drawe ȝow togideres,..To bere bischopes aboute, abrode in visytynge.

c1380 Antecrist in J. H. Todd Three Treat. Wycklyffe (1851) 140 Þei discoumforten treu men & putten hem in prison for visityng of cristen men.

1497 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 344 Item, to ane cowpar for mending and visiting of thir pipis,..viijd.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 285/1 Vysityng, uisitance, uisitation.

1565 T. Cooper Thesaurus Visitatio, a visitynge, or commyng to see.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 234 Our Consuls burning with desire of returning homeward, appointed the next day for the visiting of the Sepulcher.

1658 R. Allestree Pract. Christian Graces; or, Whole Duty of Man xvi. 356 Visiting the sick, and imprisoned: By which visiting is meant..so coming as to comfort and relieve them.

1727 J. Swift Let. to very Young Lady in Misc. II. 325 I hope your Husband will interpose his authority to limit you in the trade of Visiting.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiii. iv. 25 Mrs. Fitzpatrick,..though it was a full Hour earlier than the decent Time of visiting, receiv'd him very civilly. View more context for this quotation

1806 H. K. White Let. 6 Jan. in Remains (1807) I. 224 Visiting and gayety are very well, by way of change, but there is no enjoyment so lasting as that of one's own family.

1820 Ld. Byron Blues ii. 8 What with driving and visiting, dancing and dining.

1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 68/2 It requires great care before any one can assert that a plant has disappeared, and some years' visiting of the station.

1911 Act 1 & 2 George V c. 55 §14 Every such rule relating to the visiting of insured persons by visitors appointed by the society.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David (1823) xli. iii Their courteous visitings are courting lyes.

1628 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 211 By often visitings, presents, and invitacions.

1754 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VII. xi. 54 We shall be favoured with the company of Lord and Lady L. as soon as her Ladyship's visits and visitings are over.

1770 J. Wilkes Corr. (1805) IV. 36 I begin to recover the fatigue of visitings and great dinners, which I abominate.

1817 M. Edgeworth Ormond II. xvi. 357 Say I'm too old and clumsy for morning visitings.

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xix. 23 In plenteuousnesse it shal abide stille, withoute visiting of the werste.

1823 F. D. Hemans Siege Valencia iv. 160 I have swept o'er the mountains of your land, Leaving my traces, as the visitings Of storms, upon them!

a1851 D. M. Moir Hymn Night Wind in Poet. Wks. (1852) II. 379 But not alone to inland solitudes,..Are circumscribed thy visitings.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 96 Thei mowe be verrified in manye othere wisis and for manye other visitingis, than ben the visitingis and the ȝiftis of kunnyng.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. v. 44 Stop vp th'accesse, and passage to Remorse, That no compunctious visitings of Nature Shake my fell purpose. View more context for this quotation

1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone i. 21 Thou hast breeze-like visitings; For a Spirit with angel wings Hath touched thee.

1834 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. I. ix. 141 Let not those visitings pass away.

1836 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. III. i. 6 They cannot be ‘as the heathen’: they are pursued with gracious visitings, as Jonah when he fled away.

1867 F. Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. vii. 81 Some of those present seemed to have visitings of real compassion.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) iv. xvi. 70 There is nothing left remarkeable Beneath the visiting Moone. View more context for this quotation

1710 Tatler No. 151 The Memory of an old Visiting-Lady is so filled with Gloves, Silks, and Ribands.

1807 J. 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.

1859 C. J. Lever Davenport Dunn iii To think you're a visiting governess in an Aldermans' family.

1895 Daily News 26 Oct. 3/1 None of the visiting teams were on the winning side.

1855 W. S. Dallas in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature II. 394 One of these species, the Atta cephalotes, which inhabits the West Indies, is there known as the Visiting Ant.

c1882 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 382 The Driver Ants, or Visiting Ants, of West Africa, generally referred to the species Anomma arceus.

1899 M. H. Kingsley W. Afr. Stud. i. 27 These ants are sometimes also called ‘visiting ants’, from their habit of calling in quantities at inconvenient hours on humanity.

1855 Sun (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.]

1926 S. Lewis Mantrap xxi. 265 I..couldn't keep my hooks off any he-male that blows into town with the visiting firemen!

1936 H. Bernstein Choose Bright Morning ii. 20 He never sees people who might have legitimate business with him... But he receives all the visiting firemen.

1945 H. 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.

1962 A. Davison In Wake of Gemini 115 Members of the firm, whose business it was to look after visiting firemen, had the same happy knack.

1964 Economist 25 Jan. 313/2 The marked~up tickets are usually sold to ‘visiting firemen’.

1972 K. 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.

1950 Univ. London Gaz. 28 Oct. 178 (heading) Appointment of Visiting Professor of Belgian Studies.

1950 Univ. London Gaz. 28 Oct. 178 The Visiting Professorship of Belgian Studies.

1960 A. Huxley Let. 12 Nov. (1969) 898 I am here for the moment working as a Visiting Professor at MIT.

1962 St. Edmund Hall Mag. 1961–2 3 Mr. Allen was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Iowa.

1963 Cambridge Univ. Reporter 24 Apr. 1450 The Board of Managers of the Smuts Memorial Fund invite applications for Smuts Visiting Fellowships in Commonwealth Studies.

1963 Cambridge Univ. Reporter 24 Apr. 1450 The emoluments of a Visiting Fellow will be a sum not exceeding £1,500.

1973 Oxf. Mag. 1 June 2/2 Professor Levitch..has accepted a Visiting Fellowship at University [College].

1980 A. Coppel Hastings Conspiracy viii. 59 Langton enjoyed a visiting lectureship at the London School of Economics.

1980 M. Drabble Middle Ground 156 A visiting professor..on his way to an excavation.

1982 C. Monteith in A. Thwaite Larkin at Sixty 41 All Souls—a College where he later stayed in his own right as a Visiting Fellow.