visitatorial
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- adjective Belonging or pertaining to a judicial visitor or visitation: as, visitatorial power; hence, pertaining to any authorized inspector or examination: as, a health officer's visitatorial work or authority. Also visitorial.
Examples
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The Governors resented, too, the visitatorial power of the Royal Institution.
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The visitation opened apparently in the summer of 1535, although the visitatorial powers of the bishops were not suspended until the eighteenth of the following September.
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Wolsey had used his legatine authority to extort money from monasteries as the price of their immunity from his visitatorial powers.
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The Queen, however, still had over the Church a visitatorial power of vast and undefined extent.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1
Note
The word 'visitatorial' comes from a Latin word meaning 'visit'.
