Main entry: visitation
Definition: an official visit for inspection or supervision
Usage: the commissioner made visitations to all the precinct stations; the recent visitation of the bishop to his diocese
Main entry: visitation
Definition: any disaster or catastrophe
Usage: a visitation of the plague
Main entry: visitation, trial, tribulation
Definition: an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
Usage: his mother-in-law's visits were a great trial for him; life is full of tribulations; a visitation of the plague