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pose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient.

Liable or subject to be visited or inspected. "All hospitals built since the Reformation are visitable by the king or lord chancellor." Ayliffe.

One who visits; a guest; a visitor. When the visitant comes again, he is no more a stranger. South.

The act of visiting, or the state of being visited; access for inspection or examination. Nothing but peace and gentle visitation. Shak.

Of or pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial. An archdeacon has visitatorial power. Ayliffe. The queen, however, still had over the church a visitatorial power of vast and undefined extent. Macaulay.

A light cape or short cloak of silk or lace worn by women in summer.

A visitor.

a. & vb. n. from Visit. Visiting ant. (Zoöl.) See Driver ant, under Driver. -- Visiting book, a book in which a record of visits received, made, and to be made, is kept. Thackeray. -- Visiting card. See under Card.

One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship. "This great flood of visitors." Shak.

Same as Visitatorial.

A visiting card.

To exchange visits. [R.] Evelyn.

To visit again. Milton.

The act of revisiting.

ail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights. "The bridegroom . . . abridged his visit." Smollett. She retired herself to Sebaste, and abridged her train from state to necessity. Fuller.

place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.

Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. [Obs.]

A register for visitors' names; a visitors' book.

r foresee; to have a previous view or impression of; as, to anticipate the pleasures of a visit; to anticipate the evils of life.

To visit. [Obs.] And he applied each place so fast. Chapman. Applied chemistry. See under Chemistry. -- Applied mathematics. See under Mathematics.