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visitable, a.|ˈvɪzɪtəbl(ə)l|
[f. prec. + -able.]
1. Of institutions, etc.: Liable to visitation by some competent authority; subject to official supervision or inspection.
1605Coke Reports v. 15/2 All religious or Ecclesiastical houses, whereof the king was founder, are..only visitable and corrigible by the kings ecclesiasticall Commission. 1661J. Stephens Procurations 40 When those Religious persons..had relinquished their habit, rule, and order, for which they were visitable, then..the Visitation ceased. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 295 All..Hospitals..built since the Reformation are Visitable by the King or Lord-Chancellor. 1767Burn Eccl. Law (ed. 2) IV. 12 Free chapels..being visitable only by commission from the king. 1873Act 36 & 37 Vict. c. 39 §4 In all cases such holder shall be visitable by the Visitor of the Chapter. 1895Phillimore Eccl. Law (ed. 2) 1061 Donatives and free chapels used to pay no procurations to any ecclesiastical ordinary, because they were not visitable by any.
2. Of places or persons: Capable of being visited; readily admitting of a visit; worth visiting.
a1701Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) 104 In order to see the Sanctuaries, and other visitable places. 1837New Monthly Mag. LI. 192 Richmond..might..thus be rendered visitable by tourists. 1842Sir J. Graham in Illustr. Lond. News 14 May 7/1 The children easily visitable by their parents. 1876Ruskin St. Mark's Rest i. §2 The most beautiful columns at present extant and erect in the conveniently visitable world. 1896Advance (Chicago) 4 June 811/1 The tropics are visitable in the winter only, and then the preacher is busiest. 1953John o' London's Weekly 12 June 519/1 He was also known as a charming and eminently visitable old gentleman. 1972Maclean's Mag. Mar. 57/3 While it has it share of visitable old buildings Rijeka is more European than most Yugoslav cities. 1983R. Muir in Muir & Welfare Nat. Trust Guide Prehistoric & Roman Britain ii. 27/2 There are few exciting and visitable relics of [Mesolithic] human life apart from caves.
transf.1866Miss Mulock Noble Life vi, His rank lifted him above the small proprietors who lived within visitable distance of the Castle.
3. Of persons:
a. Capable of being visited on more or less equal terms by those of some standing in society; having some social position in a neighbourhood.
1765Cowper Let. 18 Oct., In about two months time after my arrival, I became known to all the visitable people here. 1835Court Mag. VI. 186/1 The Orange Grove! I was not aware that visitable people ever resided there! 1851Tupper Castle Cornet 309 The landlords, having no visitable neighbours, no society within many miles, are necessarily absentees. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. v, In a select party of thirty..few visitable families could be entirely left out.
b. Capable of being visited by a clergyman in the discharge of his pastoral duties.
1904R. Small Hist. U.P. Congregations I. 474 In the southern division..there were only ninety visitable families at that time.
4. Such as admits of receiving visitors.
1864Keble Let. in J. T. Coleridge Mem. (1869) 486 Charlotte was not very much in visiting, or visitable order, during a great part of the time. 1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. II. xxv. 538 Her cold, or whatever it was, had affected her face and eyes; she was not really in visitable condition. |