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Definitioner
Verb
- (transitive) Of God: to appear to (someone) to comfort, bless, or chastise or punish them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
- (transitive) To habitually go to (someone in distress, sickness etc.) to comfort them. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
- (transitive, intransitive) To go and meet (a person) as an act of friendliness or sociability.
- (transitive, now rare) To punish, to inflict harm upon (someone or something).
- (transitive) Of a sickness, misfortune etc.: to afflict (someone).
- (transitive) To inflict punishment, vengeance for (an offense) on or upon someone.
- (transitive) To go to (a shrine, temple etc.) for worship. (Now generally merged into later senses, below.)
- (transitive) To go to (a place) for pleasure, on an errand, etc.
Substantiv
- A single act of visiting.
- (medicine, insurance) A meeting with a doctor at their surgery or the doctor's at one's home.
Exempel
- [God] hath visited and redeemed his people.
- Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the LORD had visited his people in giving them bread.
- Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.
- There used to be a sharp contest as to where the effigy was to be made, for the people thought that the house from which it was carried forth would not be visited with death that year.
- If this were an Ibsen play, we would be thinking of the sins of one generation being visited upon another, he said.
- Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
- There was some laughter, and Roddle was left free to expand his ideas on the periodic visits of cowboys to the town. “Mason Rickets, he had ten big punkins a-sittin' in front of his store, an' them fellers from the Upside-down-F ranch shot 'em up […].”
- We'll visit you tomorrow.
- On our trip, we visited Paris, Milan and Rome.
- She would regularly visit the poor as part of her good works.
- The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the sons.
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