visitn.
/ˈvɪzɪt/, U.S. /ˈvɪzᵻt/ 1. figurative.1781 W. Cowper Table Talk 411 'Tis not..despondence and dismay Will win her [sc. Mercy's] visits or engage her stay.in extended use.1833 T. Nuttall in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. New Ser. 1 101 Crossbills..pay irregular visits to the northern and middle States.1843 Penny Cycl. XXV. 7/1 [The black-cap titmouse] probably extending its visits into Mexico.
a. An act of visiting a person; a friendly or formal call upon, a shorter or longer stay with, a person as a feature of social intercourse.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [noun] > as a guest
visit1626
society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun]
visitation1581
visitinga1586
visit1626
home visit1750
visitment1754
to give (someone) a look up1852
call1862
ceilidh1875
klatsch1953
1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis xiii. 274 To Nymphs of Seas,..She beares her vizets.
1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. II. 228 I have appointed you here a chamber; and..you are my debtor of a visite, now a whole yeare.
1648 in E. Nicholas Papers (1886) I. 94 To..undertake..for a visitt to him by the Lord Jarmin (who I beleeve visited none else there).
1681 Viscountess Campden Let. 25 Aug. in Hist. MSS Comm.: 12th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Duke of Rutland (1889) 56 in Parl. Papers (C. 5889–II) XLIV. 393 My Lady Skidmore and her lord was at Mr. Conisby's house upon a visette.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 102. ¶8 Like Ladies that look upon their Watches after a long Visit.
1753 Scots Mag. 15 36/1 Guilty of that most atrocious crime, the owing a visit.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 246 If the monkey ventures to offer a visit of curiosity, the toucan gives him such a welcome, that he..is glad to escape.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) i. 6 On the solemn occasions of the visit of parents.
1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Apr. 754/1 To call twice in one week, under the pretence..of a social visit.
1907 F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (ed. 2 reissued) I. 99 He is looking forward to a visit from Ralph in the summer.
b. Frequently in the phrases to make, or pay (also †give) a visit, to return a visit.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)]
seekc1200
to call in1573
call1597
to call upon ——1604
to call on ——a1616
visit1626
to make, or pay (also give) a visit1643
to pay a call1648
viz.1767
(a)
(b)1643 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) I. 636 There is no obligation but that of love, to make a visit.a1699 A. Halkett Autobiogr. (1875) 3 I doe nott remember that I made a visitt to ye neerest neibour.1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 124. ⁋1 I went on Saturday last to make a Visit in the City.1753 E. Moor in World I. No. 11. 87 She made him a visit of a month, and at his entreaty would have settled with him for ever.1779 T. Forrest Voy. New Guinea 224 Making him a visit, I found him in the great hall.1823 J. Simpson Ricardo the Outlaw I. 241 She promised that in two years, at longest, she would make them a visit.1885 W. W. Story Fiammetta 195 You promised you would make me a visit in the autumn.(c)1655 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa IV. ii. v. 489 Surena..by this visit, was in a few dayes able to pay me one.1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 24. ⁋6 Let us pay Visits, but never see one another.1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 40 The Dutch Captain..came off in his Shallop..to pay his Visit to me.1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 232 The visit paid, with extasy we come As from a seven years transportation, home.1835 Court Mag. 6 186/1 I quitted Oxford, and paid a visit to a maiden lady dwelling in the Orange Grove.1855 Ld. Tennyson To Rev. F. D. Maurice xii When the wreath of March has blossom'd,..Or later, pay one visit here, For those are few we hold as dear.figurative.1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 3 Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid.(d)1677 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 37 I missed my nephew Anthony the other day who Lady Shaftesbery sent to see me, and I am now going to returne his visit.1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 380 I return'd my visits at 3 weeks end.1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xvi. 159 My wife and daughters happening to return a visit.1644 T. Prujean Aurorata ii. E j Romeo..going to give her a visit meetes Tybalt her kinsman.
1674 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 179 My Ld Shaftsbury did me ye honour ye other day to give me a visit.
1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xvi. 215 (heading) An Abbot gives a Lady a Visit.
1709–10 R. Steele Tatler No. 128. ⁋7 He came to give our Family a formal Visit.
c. transferred. A place to which one goes only as a visitor.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > place of resort > [noun] > place visited
visit1785
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 251 Society for me! thou seeming sweet, Be still a pleasing object in my view, My visit still, but never mine abode.
d. An excursion to a place for the purpose of sightseeing; a short or temporary stay at a place. Also transferred of animals or birds (cf. visit v. 10d).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > a visit to a place
recourse1632
visit1800
descent1879
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > outing or excursion > [noun]
airing1607
tour1656
excursion1699
scheme1758
out1762
visit1800
outing1821
day out1822
day trip1838
spin1856
ta-ta1886
1800 (title) Visits to the Aviary. For the instruction of youth.
1839 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. vii. 97 There is an account of a visit to Lyme in Miss Austen's exquisite ‘Persuasion’.
1860 A. H. Clough Corr. 11 Oct. (1957) II. 578 We paid a visit to Milnes in Yorkshire, and after passing through the Highlands to Oban, made a three week's stay in Morven.
1872 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera II. xxi. 20 I spend five hundred in Paris in the two visits I make there.
e. An occasion of going to a dentist, doctor, etc., for examination or treatment.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > practice of healing art > [noun] > consultation session > visit to doctor
visit1884
1884 H. Thompson Tumours of Bladder 10 After two or three visits [to a hospital], he took a sea voyage for his health.
1902 R. Bagot Donna Diana xxviii. 356 He felt that he would far prefer a visit to the dentist to the interview before him.
f. U.S. A chat or talk.
ΚΠ
1890 Harper's Mag. Dec. 147/2 I've had a real nice visit with you.
1899 T. Hall Tales 226 Our visit together was quite uneventful but very delightful.
g. Dog-breeding. A bitch's journey to and her stay with a dog for breeding purposes. Cf. visit v. 8b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [noun] > keeping or affinity with dogs > visit for breeding purposes
visit1867
1867 Field 5 Jan. 5/3 The following bitches have been on a visit to Patent.
1887 G. Stables Pract. Kennel Guide xii. 125 Dogs..refuse food during the time of the bitch's visit.
1910 R. Leighton Dogs & All about Them l. 320 A proper mating should be considered at the outset... It is customary for the bitch to be the visitor, and it is well that her visit should extend to two or three days at the least.
2.
a. An instance of going to see, and assist or comfort, persons in distress.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] > to sick or distressed persons
visit1709
sick call1976
1709 (title) A charitable Visit to the Prisons, containing counsel to those who are confined there.
1792 R. Cecil (title) A Friendly Visit to the House of Mourning.
b. A call made by a clergyman as part of his pastoral duties.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > visit > [noun] > by clergyman
visit1724
society > faith > worship > other practices > [noun] > visitation > instance of
visit1724
station1825
1724 A. Shields Life J. Renwick 114 No place did more desire his frequent Visits than those that were most persecuted for him.
1728 J. Hurrion Christian's Hidden Life 41 His visits were generally short, but very agreeable, and useful.
c. A professional call made by a doctor on a patient.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > practice of healing art > [noun] > consultation session > in patient's home
visit1719
home visit1750
house call1899
1719 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (rev. ed.) at Visite The visit of a Physitian, or Surgeon.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Visit, the attendance of a surgeon or physician, inspector, etc.
1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing iv. 26 For a doctor..to leave the patient and communicate his opinion on the result of his visit..within hearing..of the patient [etc.].
1890 J. W. Martin Quest. & Answ. Nursing 92 To report anything that may appear unusual to the Doctor at his next visit.
3.
a. Surgical examination (of a wound). rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > [noun] > by physical means > surgical examination
visit1796
1796 C. Smith Marchmont IV. 17 I am faint after a visit to my wound.
b. An instance (or the action) of going to a place, house, etc., for the purpose of inspection or examination.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > [noun] > place of search > going to
visit1787
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [noun] > formal or official > as visit
visitation1533
visit1787
site visit1948
1787 R. Burns Let. Dec. (2001) I. 178 I have been at Dumfries, and at one visit more shall be decided about a farm in that country.
1815 J. C. Hobhouse Substance Lett. (1816) I. 291 The Emperor..examined the new manufacture of Arms... Napoleon was accompanied only by three officers when he made his visit.
1861 M. Pattison in Westm. Rev. Apr. 415 Sir Thomas More made, as Chancellor, a domiciliary visit in search of heretical books.
1897 J. S. Risley Law of War iii. viii. 265 (heading) The right of visit and search. A belligerent has the right..to visit and search every merchant ship at sea in time of war.
c. Billiards and Snooker. A turn of play at the table.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > turn or series of strokes
break1865
frame1868
visit1927
1927 Times 22 Feb. 16/3 At his second visit to the table he made a break of 111.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > discharge of menses > [noun]
purgationa1398
superfluities of the mothera1398
termsc1450
the custom of women1560
visit1653
menstruation1754
lunation1822
periodicity1848
friend1889
the curse1930
1653 T. Brugis Vade Mecum (ed. 2) 112 Philonium Persicum..is good against the overmuch flowing of womens naturall visits.
1653 T. Brugis Vade Mecum (ed. 2) 127 Myrrhe..procureth womens monthly visits.
1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 95 The Females of these have periodical Visits like Females of the Human Race.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as visit-day, visit-paying; † visit-leg n. Obsolete a posture of politeness in paying a visit (cf. leg n. 4).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [noun] > manifestation of respect > bowing, kneeling, or curtseying > a bow or curtsey
crookc1330
beckc1375
obediencec1390
obeisancea1393
reverencec1400
inclinationa1425
courtesy1508
curtsy1513
honour1531
leg1548
duck1554
beisance1556
jouk1567
congee1577
crouch1597
humblesso1599
inclinabo1607
salaam1613
dop1616
scrape1628
bowa1656
visit-leg1673
couchee1691
dip1792
bob1825
1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master iv. i Blackamoor (teaching postures to M. de Paris). Now let me see you make your visit-leg—thus.
a1717 T. Parnell Elegy to Old Beauty 29 With better Strength, on Visit-days she bears To mount her fifty Flights of ample Stairs.
1849 W. M. Thackeray in Scribner's Mag. 1 522/2 I have been most remiss in visit-paying.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
visitv.
/ˈvɪzɪt/, U.S. /ˈvɪzᵻt/ I. To come to, for favourable or often unfavourable purposes; to afflict or inflict.† 2. To come to (persons) in order to observe or examine conduct or disposition; to make trial of; to subject to test or scrutiny. Obsolete.absolute.1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxi. 14 What then shall I do, when God riseth vp? and when hee visiteth, what shall I answere him? View more context for this quotation
1. in extended use.1830 Ld. Tennyson Ode to Memory i, in Poems 58 Oh, haste, Visit my low desire! Strengthen me, enlighten me!
a. transitive. Of the Deity: to come to (persons) in order to comfort or benefit.Sometimes passing into senses 7 or 8. In Alexander 1964 used of pagan deities.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [verb (transitive)] > come to (persons)
visita1250
a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 68 Me ivint ðet heo fluwen monne sturbinge. & wenden bi ham one. & ter god visitede ham. & ȝef ham hore bonen.
a1325 Prose Psalter cv. (cvi.) 4 Þenche, Lord, on vs in þe wele~likand of þy folk, and visit vs in þyne helþe.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 128 Þet is þet uerste guod þet þe holy gost deþ to þe sene~ȝere, huanne he him uisiteþ.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xv. 15 Lord, recorde thou of me, and visite me, and delyuere me fro them that pursuen me.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5789 Sai þam i sal þam son visete,..I sal þam bring vte of thain-hede.
c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 914 God, as him list, visitith folk, & smyt.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 269 Almighti God hase forsaken me, becauce He vissettis not me as He was wunt.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ruth i. 6 She had herde..yt the Lorde had visited his people & geuen them bred.
1553 Primer in Liturgies Edw. VI (1844) 399 Visit him, O Lord, as thou didst visit Peter's wife's mother, and the captain's servant.
1645 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) I. 636 When God comes in kindness and love to do us good, he visiteth us.
1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 526 But art thou come, dear Saviour? hath thy Love Thus made thee stoop..and thus thy self to dress In dust to visit Mortals?
1727 D. Defoe Ess. Hist. Apparitions i. 9 Thus Adam was frequently visited in Eden.
1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 743 For He..Shall visit earth in Mercy.
b. spec. (See quots.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > conception > conceive [verb (transitive)] > come to enable conception
visit1382
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [verb (transitive)] > come to (persons) > to cause conception of child
visit1382
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxi. 1 God forsothe visitide Sara,..and fulfillide that that he spak. And she conseyuede. [Similarly in later versions.]
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 190 The hihe makere of nature Hire hath visited in a throwe, That it was openliche knowe Sche was with childe be the king.
c. To come to (persons) in order to judge of their state or condition. (Cf. sense 9.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [verb (transitive)] > judge
deraignc1330
judgec1350
visit1382
doomc1503
to weigh (also examine) with the weights (or scales) of the sanctuary1617
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. iii. 16 Visytynge Y haue visitid ȝow, and Y haue seen alle thingis that haue fallun to ȝow in Egipte.
1645 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) I. 637 In this sense, Job saith, that God visits man every morning, as a shepherd his flock, lest any should be hurt or straid.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [verb (transitive)] > come to (persons) > observe or scrutinize
visita1325
a1325 Prose Psalter xvi. 4 (xvii. 3) Þou prouedest myn hert, and uisited it on niȝt.
a1325 Prose Psalter lviii. 6 (lix. 5) Ȝif entent to uisiten al folkes; ne haue þou nouȝt mercy on alle þat wirchen wickednes.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job vii. 18 Thou visitist hym the morntid, and feerli [a1425 L.V. sudeynli] thou prouest hym.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3195 Godd has þe [sc. Abraham] visited here to-dai, þi dede in minnyng sal last ai.
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi ii. ix. 51 Wherfore saiþ Iob: ‘Thou visitist him by tyme,..& sodenly þou preuest him’.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxi. 14 But seynge that God wil sytt in judgment, what shal I do? And for so moch as he wil nedes vyset me, what answere shal I geue him?
1645 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) I. 637 The eye of God is alway upon us:..he visiteth us so, that we can turn no way but he is with us.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 48 But God who oft descends to visit men Unseen, and through thir habitations walks To mark thir doings. View more context for this quotation
3.
a. To inflict hurt, harm, or punishment upon (a person); to deal severely or hardly with (persons or things); †to cut off, cause to die.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)]
visita1382
watcha1586
wreak1817
to play hob1838
to raise hob1911
the world > life > death > cause of death > cause death [verb (transitive)]
to be the death ofOE
slayc1000
reavec1230
dissolvec1374
visita1382
extinguish1540
expiate1594
to carry away1603
to carry off1679
devive1869
to settle the number of a person's mess1881
the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] > inflict (adversity) on or upon
teenOE
wait1303
visita1382
show1483
usurpc1485
prejudge1531
pull1550
apply1558
inflict1594
to put through the mangle1924
society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > severely
visita1382
to-punisha1400
overpunisha1639
to give (a person) hell1836
to give a person what for1852
slate1854
to give it in the neck1881
to come down1888
bean1910
scrub1911
cane1925
to gie (or give) (someone) laldy1935
society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > inflict (retributive punishment) [verb (transitive)] > for an offence or on an offender > on a person
wreakc888
visita1382
repay1614
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxvi. 14 Therfore thou hast visityd, and to-brosedest hem, and lost al the mynde of hem.
1485 Cov. Leet Bk. 528 If your wisdomes..woll please..to chese me..Recorder of your Citie, if God visite your Recorder that nowe is.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Amos iii. A Therfore will I vyset you in all youre wickednesses.
1541 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 152 Beinge visitt with the hande of God.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 312 Let vs alwayes looke to the first cause of our affliction, and to God who visiteth vs iustly.
1611 Bible (King James) Amos iii. 14 I will also visite the altars of Bethel, and the hornes of the altar shall be cut off. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) I. 636 When God visits our bodies, our estates, our families, or the kingdom where we live.
a1770 J. Jortin Serm. (1771) I. iii. 52 We haue mentioned several reasons why God doth not immediately visit the disobedient.
1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 248 If vice receiv'd her retribution due When we were visited, what hope for you?
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. xlviii. 67 Her life was spared by the clemency of the emperor, but he visited the pomp and treasures of her palace.
b. To afflict or distress with sickness, poverty, or the like.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > afflict with sickness
visit1424
the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > cause mental pain or suffering to [verb (transitive)]
heavyc897
pineeOE
aileOE
sorryeOE
traya1000
sorrowOE
to work (also do) (a person) woeOE
angerc1175
smarta1200
to work, bake, brew balec1200
derve?c1225
grieve?c1225
sitc1225
sweam?c1225
gnawc1230
sughc1230
troublec1230
aggrievea1325
to think sweama1325
unframea1325
anguish1340
teen1340
sowa1352
distrainc1374
to-troublea1382
strain1382
unglad1390
afflicta1393
paina1393
distressa1400
hita1400
sorea1400
assayc1400
remordc1400
temptc1400
to sit (or set) one sorec1420
overthrow?a1425
visit1424
labour1437
passionc1470
arraya1500
constraina1500
misgrievea1500
attempt1525
exagitate1532
to wring to the worse1542
toil1549
lament1580
adolorate1598
rankle1659
try1702
to pass over ——1790
upset1805
to touch (also get, catch, etc.) (a person) on the raw1823
to put (a person) through it1855
bludgeon1888
to get to ——1904
to put through the hoop(s)1919
the world > action or operation > adversity > suffer (adversity or affliction) [verb (transitive)] > afflict > affect or visit with adversity
followOE
waryc1200
hita1400
remord?c1400
visit1424
to lead (a person) the measures1594
conflict1609
to lead a person a life1715
overhit1816
put1841
to put (a person) through it1855
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack (of hostile agency) > attack with
visit1424
vizy1488
1424 King Henry VI in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. I. 100 Oure bel Uncle of Excestre, whom oure Lord now late visitid with seknesse.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 127 Som withe povert hym list to visite.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. AAAii Euery chylde that he receyueth he chastiseth & visiteth with peyne & tribulacion.
1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (1586) i. 2 God..hauing visited mee with a long, and perchaunce a curelesse disease.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. vii. 19 b Before his departure..he ment to visit the town of Mousambick, and the dwellers therein, with some sufficient reuenge.
1624 J. Ussher in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) (Camden) 131 It pleased God to visite me with a quartan.
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxvii. 247 His indignation ought to be directed to Got Almighty, who visited his people with distempers.
1862 A. K. H. Boyd Graver Thoughts Country Parson 52 Holy Scripture sets before us two men,..each of whom was visited with a thorn in the flesh to keep him down.
c. To deprive of something. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of)
benimc890
to do of ——eOE
bedealc1000
disturbc1230
bereavec1275
reave?a1300
acquitc1300
benemec1300
deprivec1330
privea1382
subvertc1384
oppressc1395
abridgea1400
to bate of, from1399
lessa1400
nakena1400
dischargea1425
privatec1425
to bring outa1450
abatec1450
sever?1507
spulyie?1507
denude1513
disable1529
distrain1530
destituec1540
destitutec1540
defalk1541
to turn out of ——1545
discomfit1548
wipe1549
nude1551
disannul?a1556
bereft1557
diminish1559
benoom1563
joint1573
uncase1583
rid1585
disarm1590
visitc1592
ease1600
dispatch1604
unfurnisha1616
rig1629
retrench1640
unbecomea1641
disentail1641
cashier1690
twin1722
mulct1748
fordo1764
to do out of ——1796
to cut out1815
bate1823
deprivate1832
devoid1878
c1592 Faire Em sig. D3 Good father giue me leaue to sit Where I may not be disturbed Sith God hath visited me both of my sight and hearing.
4.
a. Of sickness, etc.: to come upon (a person or persons), to assail or afflict. Frequently in passive and const. with or by.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > affect or afflict
aileOE
takec1300
visitc1340
troublec1400
vex?c1425
surprise1485
vizy1488
attaintc1534
heart-burn?1537
molest1559
gar1614
possess1617
misaffect1618
corrept1657
invalid1803
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack (of hostile agency)
besetOE
infighta1300
saila1300
seeka1300
visitc1340
beclipc1380
entainc1380
seizec1381
offendc1385
affectc1425
rehetea1450
take1483
attaintc1534
prevent1535
attach1541
attempt1546
affront1579
buffeta1593
to get at ——1650
assault1667
insult1697
to lay at1899
c1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1980 Als we suld ilk day þeded fele, And byde noght til þe dede us vyset.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Num. xvi. 29 If [there]..visyte them a veniaunce, with the which and other ben woned to be visytid, the Lorde hath not sente me.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. xcv The kyng his father, so visited with sickenesse was not personable.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 156 He was hestelie vissitit with the heot feweris.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. i. 26 I would the state of time had first been whole, Eare he by sicknesse had bin visited . View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) I. 636 When a house hath the Plague,..we use to say, Such a house is visited.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 21 So grieviously visited with the plague,..that before a month..the living were hardly able to bury the dead.
1662 E. Hookes in Extracts State Papers (Friends' Hist. Soc.) (1911) 2nd Ser. 154 In the White Lyon prisson..about 23 of them vissitted with sicknesse and a high feever.
1716 A. Pope God's Revenge against Punning 2 One Samuel an Irishman, for his forward Attempt to Pun..hath been visited all his Life after with Bulls and Blunders.
1776 Med. Observ. & Inquiries (ed. 4) I. 43 Being visited by a gentle attack [of gout] in both feet.
1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger I. iii. 120 Since leaving Jenna, we have met an incredible number of persons visited with the loss of one eye.
1855 Poultry Chron. 3 148/1 Some which were..tended with constant care, all died: and similar mortality has visited others also.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxiii. 602 Cornwall must have been more lightly visited with the Plague than most English counties.
b. spec. in passive. Bewitched.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [verb (intransitive)] > be enchanted
visit1820
1820 Sporting Mag. 7 101 On account of their stock thus ‘visited’, as the term is, the infatuated peasantry almost invariably have recourse to charms.
5.
a. To punish or requite (wrongdoing). Also const. with.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > punish offence
wreakc888
visita1325
vengea1340
punish1340
revenge1531
vizy1562
a1325 Prose Psalter lxxxviii. (lxxxix.) 32 Y shal uisite in chasteing her wickednesses, and her synȝes in vengeaunce.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxxii. 34 Y in the day of veniaunce shal visite this synne of hem. [Also Jer. xiv. 10, Lam. iv. 22, etc.; similarly in later versions.]
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xxiii. 2 Therfore, now will I vyset the wickednes of youre ymaginacions, saieth ye Lorde.
1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism ii. 41 So jealous is Nature of her constitutions that she rigorously visits every infringement of them.
1833 I. Taylor Fanaticism ii. 49 The instinct of Retribution or the vehement desire to see wrong visited with punishment.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 496 What, he often said, could be more unjust, than to visit speculations with penalties which ought to be reserved for acts?
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xix. 310 Mild offences were visited with the loss of eyes or ears.
b. To avenge, or inflict punishment for (wrongdoing) on or upon (also †in, into) a person.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > execute (vengeance) [verb (transitive)] > avenge (an injury or injured person) > on a person
wreakOE
avenge1377
visita1382
repay1614
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxiii. 2 Y shal visite vp on ȝow the malice of ȝoure studies.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xx. 3 Visitynge the wickidnes of fadris in sones into the thridde and the ferthe generacioun.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Num. xiv. C The Lorde..vysiteth the myszdede of the fathers vpon the children.
1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. i. x. f. 28v I will visit & punis the synnis quhilk the fatheris dois..on thair sonnis.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. v. 12 So the sinnes of my mother should be visited vpon me. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Jer. xxiii. 2 Behold I will visite vpon you the euill of your doings. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 179 Thy sinnes are visited in this poore childe. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 955 I to that place Would speed before thee,..That on my head all might be visited . View more context for this quotation
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab viii. 107 Which doubly visits on the tyrants' heads The long-protracted fulness of their woe.
1831 J. Keble Serm. (1848) v. 118 Thus, reversing the Scripture rule most unfairly, men visit the sins of the children on the fathers.
1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xiii. 266 He visited the daughter's fault upon the son.
c. To inflict (punishment) on one. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)]
threac897
tighta1000
beswinkc1175
punisha1325
chastise1362
paina1375
justifya1393
wage1412
reformc1450
chasten1526
thwart over thumba1529
chastifyc1540
amerce?1577
follow1579
to rap (a person) on the knuckles (also fingers)1584
finea1616
mulcta1620
fita1625
vindicate1632
trounce1657
reward1714
tawse1790
sort1815
to let (a person) have it1823
visit1836
to catch or get Jesse1839
to give, get goss1840
to have ita1848
to take (a person) to the woodshed1882
to give (one) snuff1890
soak1892
give1906
to weigh off1925
to tear down1938
zap1961
slap1968
1836 J. Gilbert Christian Atonem. ix. 406 It is said to be of the essence of legal penalty to visit punishment on the person of the offender.
6. absol. To take vengeance or inflict punishment. †Also const. on or over.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > punishment > retributive punishment > inflict retributive punishment [verb (intransitive)]
wreakc825
to do, have, nim (= take), ta, or take wrake (of, on, or upon)?a900
to do (also take) wrack (on one)12..
to do, have, make, nim, seek, and esp. take wrechec1200
to take (also nim) vengeance1297
to perform, seek, spend, work, and esp. take (…) wreakc1330
visita1382
vengec1400
revengec1485
avenge1535
hevenc1540
the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > take or execute revenge [verb (intransitive)]
wreakc825
to do, have, nim (= take), ta, or take wrake (of, on, or upon)?a900
to do (also take) wrack (on one)12..
to do, have, make, nim, seek, and esp. take wrechec1200
to take (also nim) vengeance1297
wrakea1300
to perform, seek, spend, work, and esp. take (…) wreakc1330
visita1382
vengec1400
revengec1485
avenge1535
hevenc1540
resent1612
exact1858
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxvii. 1 In that dai viseten shal the Lord in his harde swerd..vp on leuyathan.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. x. 12 I shal visite vpon the fruyt of the gret doende herte of the king of Assur.
1610 Bible (Douay) II. Isa. xiii. 11 And I will visite over the evils of the world, and against the impious their iniquitie.
1840 T. De Quincey On Essenes: Pt. III in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 642/2 When the vilest outrages were offered by foreigners to their women, probably they [sc. the Sicarii] ‘visited’ for such atrocities.
II. To pay a visit to, chiefly for benevolent purposes, and related uses.† 11. To come to (a person) with some accompaniment; to supply or enrich with some benefit.
7. absolute.a1591 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 22 The devil goeth a-visiting, he will teach the sick how they shall recover their health.
a. To make a practice of going to (persons in sickness or distress) in order to comfort or assist them.
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society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [verb (transitive)]
visitc1250
philanthropize1830
society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [verb (transitive)] > visit for philanthropic purposes
visitc1250
c1250 Kent. Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 28 For þo luue of gode wakie, go ine pelrimage, uisiti þe poure, and to sike.
c1315 Shoreham i. 1032 [To] Vysyty syke and prysone, And helpe pouere at nede.
c1375 Lay Folks' Catech. 1133 Whi schuld venym or stynk lette vs to visite men in presun.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 412 I visited neuere fieble men, ne fettered folke in puttes.
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 68 Visite the pore, with intyre diligence, On al nedy have thow compassioun.
c1450 Mirk's Festial 231 Helpe þe seke, and vysed hom þat be in prison.
1493 Chastysing Goddes Chyldern (de Worde) iv. sig. Av/2 Also [it] is good..to visite seke folke that ben holden goostly lyuers.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) James i. 27 To vysit the frendlesse and widdowes in their adversite.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 837 You shall this tweluemonth terme from day to day, Visite the speachlesse sicke. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. iii. 4 Bound by my charity,..I come to visite the afflicted spirits Here in the prison. View more context for this quotation
1687 J. Renwick in A. Shields Life (1724) 219 Ye must visit the Sick and these who are in Distress.
1795 Paley (title) The Clergyman's Companion in Visiting the Sick.
1862 Chambers's Encycl. IV. 541/1 The deplorable condition of the female prisoners in Newgate attracted her [Elizabeth Fry's] attention, and she resolved upon visiting them.
b. Similarly with reference to individual cases.
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1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 4388 He lay yn hys bedde long Sone aftyr betydde a lytte Þe kyng come, hym to vysyte.
13.. Seuyn Sages (W.) 1138 He let of-sende..Hise neyebours him to visite, And told..Hou his deth was comen him on.
1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 50 Þere shal no broþir ne sister sene othir in prison, [but] þat he shal comyn and vesyten hym and comfordyn hym.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16013 Til his felaus he yede He went him for to wisit þaim, for þar-of had þai nede.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xlviii. 167 It pleaseth me well that this caytyue Huon, who endureth myche payne, be vysytyd by thee.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 766/1 It is an almesse dede to visyte the poore man, he hath ben long sycke.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Visitacion of Sicke f. xix*v If the person visited bee very sicke, then the curate may end his exhortacion at this place.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. iii. 79 Come, you must go visit the good Lady that lies in. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) I. 636 Christ pronounceth the blessing on them who, when he was in prison, visited him.
1712 N. Spinckes (title) The Sick Man Visited; and furnished with Instructions, Meditations, and Prayers.
1808 E. Hamilton Cottagers of Glenburnie x. 232 The minister..had been sent for..to visit a sick parishioner.
8. figurative.a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. i. 60 Let me heare from thee by Letters..And I likewise will visite thee with mine. View more context for this quotation1683 in Pennsylvania Arch. (1852) I. 72 I have long promised my~self to visit thee wth a Letter.
a. To go to see (a person) in a friendly or sociable manner; to call upon as an act of friendliness or politeness, or for some special purpose; also, to stay with for a short time as a guest.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (transitive)] > dwell temporarily with
visit13..
society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (transitive)]
seekc893
visit13..
vizyc1425
to go to (also and) see1548
to call upon ——1604
calla1616
paya1616
vis1754
to look up1827
to visit with1850
13.. Arth. & Merlin 701 Biside þer woned an ermite, Þat þider com, þis [= these] to visite.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 4450 Whende ichil in-to mi cuntre, Mine frendes to visite & to se.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 325 Þat tyme whanne Moyses visited his breþeren in þe lond of Iessen, he slowȝ a man of þe Egipcians.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) v. 39 And whan the Soudan wille, he may go visite him.
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. 3764 Hector in herte cauȝte an appetite..Þe same day Grekis to vesite.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) ii. iv. 47 The knyght enulphus which cam the same nyght with his squyer for to visite his lord.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xlvj As though he had gone secretely to visite a familier frende of his.
1580 E. Knight Triall of Truth To Rdr. sig. *3v A friend of myne viziting me at my chamber, and finding me so solitary exercised [etc.].
1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Polit. Touch-stone (1674) 268 This Duke visited..Prospero Colonna, of whom he was received with all sorts of Honour.
1676 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 29 Lady Cleaveland is not, they say, much satisfied in France because the greatest ladies doe not visit her.
1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 61 He's too lazy and proud to visit common Sailors.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. ix. 264 Who, though some over-nice Ladies will not be seen with her, is visited (as they term it) by the whole Town. View more context for this quotation
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian III. v. 135 Vivaldi was visited, in his prison, by a man whom he had never consciously seen before.
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xlvii. 424 Had he not been so great a Prince very few possibly would have visited him.
1860 J. W. Warter Sea-board & Down II. 461 How many of the friends I was on my way to visit are no more seen!
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood vii. 43 He comes here visiting his relation, Mr. Jasper.
b. To have cohabitation with (one of the opposite sex). rare except in Dog-Breeding: to be put to mate with (a dog) or at (a kennel).
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with
mingeOE
haveOE
knowc1175
ofliec1275
to lie with (or by)a1300
knowledgec1300
meetc1330
beliea1350
yknowc1350
touchc1384
deala1387
dightc1386
usea1387
takec1390
commona1400
to meet witha1400
servea1400
occupy?a1475
engender1483
jangle1488
to be busy with1525
to come in1530
visitc1540
niggle1567
mow1568
to mix one's thigh with1593
do1594
grind1598
pepper1600
yark1600
tumble1603
to taste of1607
compressc1611
jumble1611
mix?1614
consort?1615
tastea1616
bumfiddle1630
ingressa1631
sheet1637
carnal1643
night-work1654
bump1669
bumble1680
frig?c1680
fuck1707
stick1707
screw1719
soil1722
to do over1730
shag1770
hump1785
subagitatec1830
diddle1879
to give (someone) onec1882
charver1889
fuckeec1890
plugc1890
dick1892
to make a baby1911
to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912
jazz1920
rock1922
yentz1924
roll1926
to make love1927
shtupa1934
to give (or get) a tumble1934
shack1935
bang1937
to have it off1937
rump1937
tom1949
to hop into bed (with)1951
ball1955
to make it1957
plank1958
score1960
naughty1961
pull1965
pleasurea1967
to have away1968
to have off1968
dork1970
shaft1970
bonk1975
knob1984
boink1985
fand-
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping dogs or cats > [verb (transitive)] > put to breed with
visit1867
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10820 Now the maner was most of þo mylde wemen, Thre mones with mirthe þo men for to viset.
1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Eviijv The men are accustomed to vysyte the women once in the yeare.
1867 Field 5 Jan. 5/3 The following bitches have visited Good Idea at the Blundell Arms Kennels.
1877 G. Stables Pract. Kennel Guide xii. 122 In your correspondence with the owner of the bitch that is going to visit your kennel, be sure to let him know that he is to send her..as soon as there are the slightest signs of her coming in season.
1922 R. Leighton Compl. Bk. Dog iii. 34 40 per cent. of prize-bred bitches which visit prize~bred dogs are unproductive.
c. Of a doctor: to attend (a patient) professionally.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > practice of healing art > practise the healing art [verb (transitive)] > tend the sick > as medical man
visit1585
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xii. 93 [The physician] is bound to visite him foure times a daye, vntill suche time as he haue recouered his health.
1607 Merrie Iests George Peele 7 The gentlewoman..sent one of the men to desire the Doctor to come and visit her Husband.
1707 J. Floyer Physician's Pulse-watch 253 The Physicians themselves in China are Apothecaries, and when they Visit their Patients, they carry a Servant loaded with their Medicines.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Physician Clinical Physicians were those who visited their Patients a-bed, to examine their Cases.
1772 Med. Observ. & Inquiries (ed. 2) IV. 5 About four o'clock I visited her again, and found that the vomiting had ceased.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 409 The District, in which the Patients of the Finsbury Dispensary are visited.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 133/1 For visiting a patient out of his own city he [Petrus de Abano] charged..about six pounds per day.
1886 in Brit. Med. Jrnl. (1887) 486/1 In cases of urgent necessity, patients will be visited at their own houses.
d. transferred. To go to (a person, etc.) with hostile intentions.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > advance to attack
seekc825
to seek again(sc1230
pursue?a1425
seek1487
visitc1515
coast1531
to make upon ——1542
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > make hostile approach to
runOE
to seek on (also upon)c1230
pursuec1300
yerna1400
seek1487
visitc1515
coast1531
accost1597
to come at ——1601
to make against ——1628
to make at ——1637
tilt1796
rush1823
to come for ——1870
to move in1941
bum-rush1988
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lviii. 196 Syr, cause your men too be armed, and let vs go vysyte the Admyrall Galaffer.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. iv. 36 For if Lord Percy thriue not ere the king Dismisse his power, he meanes to visit vs. View more context for this quotation
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. i. sig. E4 Before I touch The banks of rest, my ghost shall visite her.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. v. 143 Set downe..thine own waies Whether to knocke against the Gates of Rome, Or rudely visit them in parts remote. View more context for this quotation
e. figurative.1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xxii. 236 You rayther want somebody to look arter you Sir, ven your judgment goes out a wisitin'.
(a) absol. To make a call or calls; to pay calls; to maintain friendly or social intercourse by this means; also, to spend a short time with one as a guest; to pay visits of this kind.In the first quot. apparently ‘to go canvassing’.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)]
liec1000
harbourc1200
sojournc1290
layc1300
sojourc1330
to make, take (up) one's lodging1362
pilgrimagea1382
bield?a1400
lodgec1400
tarryc1400
to make (one's) residence1433
harbingec1475
harbry1513
stay1554
roost?1555
embower1591
quarter1591
leaguer1596
allodge1601
tenta1616
visit1626
billet1628
to lie abroad1650
tabernacle1653
sojourney1657
canton1697
stop1797
to shake down1858
to hole up1875
perendinate1886
shack1935
cotch1950
society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (intransitive)]
seekc1200
to call in1573
call1597
to call upon ——1604
to call on ——a1616
visit1626
to make, or pay (also give) a visit1643
to pay a call1648
viz.1767
1626 J. Mede Let. 3 June in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 230 Hereupon on Tuesday morning..some durst be so bold as to visitt for the contrary in publick.
1645 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) I. 636 It is..more extraordinary to visit in a morning, and most, early in the morning.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 24. ⁋5 They are qualify'd rather to add to the Furniture of the House (by filling an empty Chair) than to the Conversation they come into when they visit.
1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 546 I found myself very sad, and lonely,..so all my kindred made it a point to have me a visiting among them.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey I. i. viii. 51 Busied with his studies, and professing ‘not to visit’.
1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond xiii Her ladyship knows my address, having visited here.
1894 L. Alma-Tadema Wings of Icarus 41 A spinster..who spends her life visiting from place to place.
(b) Const. at.
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1753 J. Collier Art Tormenting (1811) i. ii. 54 Unless..she happens to receive any particular address from the young gentlemen who visit at your house.
1836 C. Dickens Let. 31 Mar. (1965) I. 144 I cannot..visit at a relation's house from which my father is excluded.
1976 Stillwater (Montana) News 1 July 2/1 Ruthie Braunstadter of Billings visited at the home of her grandmother.
1978 Times 1 Feb. 15/5 If it were only a friendly meal around a common table, I am sure that Catholics would be only too happy to visit at the tables of their friends whenever they were invited.
f. to visit with: = sense 8a. Now U.S.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > visit [verb (transitive)]
seekc893
visit13..
vizyc1425
to go to (also and) see1548
to call upon ——1604
calla1616
paya1616
vis1754
to look up1827
to visit with1850
1850 E. Ruskin Let. 18 Jan. in Effie in Venice (1965) ii. 117 They visit with everybody in Venice.
1871 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch (1872) I. i. i. 8 The small group of gentry with whom he visited.
a1902 F. Norris Pit (1903) v. 150 Almost every evening nowadays the Dearborn girls came..to visit with the Cresslers.
1927 C. A. Lindbergh ‘We’ iv. 57 Perryville, Missouri, where we visited with some of Klink's friends.
1949 M. Lowry Let. 1 July (1967) 179 Margerie is flying..to visit—to visit with, I believe I should say— her family for a week.
1973 Black Panther 16 June 2/1 Seale visited with David Hilliard at Vacaville (Medical Facility) Prison.
1981 C. Potok Bk. of Lights (1982) vii. 227 He took Karen to a movie, then visited for a while with her family.
1985 New Yorker 11 Feb. 70/1 A young man of Ved's age and grade level is visiting with him.
g. intransitive. To talk or chat; to exchange conversation. U.S.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > conversation > converse [verb (intransitive)]
yedc888
speak971
rounda1200
talka1225
tevela1225
intercommunec1374
fable1382
parlec1400
reason?c1425
communique?1473
devise1477
cutc1525
wade1527
enterparle1536
discourse1550
to hold one chat, with chat, in chat1573
parley1576
purpose1590
dialogue1595
commerce1596
dialoguize1596
communicate1598
propose1600
dialogize1601
converse1615
tella1616
interlocute1621
interparle1791
conversate1811
colloquize1823
conversationize1826
colloque1850
visit1862
colloquy1868
to make conversation1921
1862 M. D. Colt Went to Kansas xii. 195 Have visited some, but am now in my room again to rest.
1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xix. 111 He..stopped at the Mission-House, visiting with the teachers.
1898 M. Deland Old Chester Tales 75 You can eat it while I get out and visit with the minister.
1929 N.Y. Times Mag. 20 Oct. 1 Having disposed of a batch of correspondence he was willing to visit in informal..fashion. It was good talk.
1967 ‘P. Kruger’ Weave Wicked Web xi. 94 I called to see her around eight... Stella and I visited until close on eleven.
1979 N. Mailer Executioner's Song i. xviii. 304 Nicole drove down to the Preliminary Hearing..but they let her visit with Gary for only a moment.
9. absolute.1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. xiii. 217 His orderly proceeding appeareth in this, that he first visited and then reformed.1621 W. Ames in P. Baynes Diocesans Tryall Pref. sig. A2v When Arch. Bancroft sent M. Harsenet to Visite as they call it, that is..to suppresse those that are not friends to the Bishops Kingdome.1691 Case of Exeter-Coll. 46 This is every whit as rational, as that a Bishop, being a Visitor of a College, &c. should take his Episcopal Authority along with him when he goes to Visit.1713 E. Gibson Codex Juris Eccl. Anglicani xlii. viii. 1009/1 To enable Archdeacons to Visit with greater Authority and Effect.1721 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1910) 8 304 The said Lord Arch-Bishop..may visit once every year conformable to the Rule.† c. To examine medically. Obsolete.
a. To go to look at (†or explore); to inspect or examine; to look into or see to (something); in later use esp. to examine (vessels, goods, baggage, etc.) officially.Rarely with clause as object, as in Milton Paradise Lost viii. 45.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > investigate, examine [verb (transitive)]
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to have in waitc1440
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to bring witnessc1475
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to look into ——1561
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inquisite1674
reconnoitre1740
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to bring to book1786
look-see1867
scrutate1882
to shake down1915
sleuth1939
screen1942
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > inspect, survey [verb (transitive)]
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to take a (also the) view of1476
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survey1592
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > search for or seek [verb (transitive)] > search (a place) > explore or search through
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visit1338
discoverc1440
explorate?1549
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exquire1607
the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > take care about [verb (transitive)] > see to or about
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to see to ——a1382
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to wait to ——c1440
to see unto ——a1470
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to see after ——1544
to look unto ——1545
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to see about ——1710
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > inspect, survey [verb (transitive)] > officially > so as to check quality
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1338 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 4 Þe kyng Ine gart crie Home forto wend to childe & to wife, To visitte þer londes, to solace þer life.
a1400 K. Alis. (Laud) 6081 Whan hij han rested a lyte, Þe lande hij wenden to visite. Hij founden narewe paþes, & liȝtt fen.
a1400 Coer de L. 645 Thus they vysyted the Holy Land How they myght wynne it to her hand.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Job v. 24 And thou visitynge thi fairnesse [gloss, that is, biholding thi prosperite] schalt not do synne.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 94 Also ought they to rede visite and to knowe the statutes..of the contre.
a1500 Walter of Henley's Husbandry (Sloane) (1890) 58 Loke þat ye viset your þynges wisely & often..also loke you visite often tymis your servauntes.
c1500 Melusine (1895) xxi. 139 There he made come..all the Captayns & chieftayns..to behold & vysyte theire harneys, yf eny thing wanted.
?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Av Faustus aryse thou, out of thy lyttre hote Go se and vysyte, our wethers in the cote.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement Introd. 5 When they had thorowly visyted my said two bokes.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie i. xix. 21 b Visiting afterwards theyr teeth and eyes, as though they had been horses.
1601 Ld. Mountjoy Let. to Cecil 13 Nov. in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. ii. ii. 157 It groweth now about foure a clocke in the morning, at which time I lightly chuse to visit our Guards my selfe.
1654 J. Bramhall Just Vindic. Church of Eng. vii. 199 All Bulls and Missives which come from Rome to France are to be seen and visited, to try if there be nothing in them prejudicial [etc.].
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 182 We were introduced into the City by the Trucheman of the Convent, who came with a Turk belonging to the Basha, that visited our Baggage.
a1732 T. Boston Memoirs (1776) viii. 166 The synod-book was once a-year to be filled up, for the general assembly to visit it.
1737 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 685/1 That no British Vessels shall be visited or molested..by the Judges of Contraband.
1772 Regul. H.M. Service at Sea 17 A Captain..is immediately to repair on board, and visit her through~out, in Company with his Officers.
1778 R. Orme Hist. Mil. Trans. Brit. Nation II. 21 A passport, or dustuck..should exempt the goods it specified from being visited or stopped by the officers.
1822 P. B. Shelley Fragm. Unfinished Drama 155 I rose, and went, Visiting my flowers from pot to pot.
1897 J. S. Risley Law of War iii. viii. 265 (heading) The right of visit and search. A belligerent has the right..to visit and search every merchant ship at sea in time of war.
b. spec. To go to (an institution) for the purpose of seeing that everything is in due order; to exercise a periodic surveillance or supervision over, or make a special investigation into (management or conduct).
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [verb (intransitive)] > visit
visitc1325
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > [verb (transitive)] > visit
visitc1325
the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > inspect, survey [verb (transitive)] > officially
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vizyc1425
aviewa1513
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inspect1623
c1325 Poem Times Edw. II (Percy Soc.) x The erche~deknes that beth sworn To visite holy cherche,..welle begynne Febleche to wyrche.
1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII c. 21 §14 Provyded alway that the seid Archebisshopp of Canterburye..shall have noo power or auctoritie..to vysite or vexe any Monasteries.
1535 in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 76 Whan I have visite hys see, this nyght I wilbe at Feversham Abbay.
1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xxv. f. clviii Bishoppes haue power..to call synodes..to visit theyr diocesanes.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 159 The said Bischope went to wissit ewerie kirk withtin his diosie four tymes in the ȝeir.
1640 in J. Campbell Balmerino & Abbey (1867) iii. iii. 191 The Presbyterie of Cupar did visitt the kirk.
1690 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 334 Jonathan Trelawney, bishop of Exon visited Exeter College July 26. Dr. Arthur Bury, the rector, expelled.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 96 The Bishop ought to visit his Diocess every Year in his own Person.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 91 To appoint a commission with power to visit and govern the Church of England.
1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 52 A faculty empowering Wolsey to visit those English monasteries.
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the world > health and disease > healing > diagnosis or prognosis > examination > examine medically [verb (transitive)]
searcha1425
visit1484
examine?1541
to run the rule over1909
to work up1931
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope i When the medecyns had sene and vysyted hym..they sayd that he had no bodyly sekeness.
c1500 Melusine (1895) xxxvi. 288 Your woundes and soores must be vysyted and ouersene.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) x. 28 He sent for his surgens, causyng them to serche his wounde;..and when they hadde well vysytyd the wounde, they sayde [etc.].
10. in extended use.1894 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. III 554 One tree after another is visited by the active little rovers, and its branches examined.absolute.1833 T. Nuttall in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. New Ser. 1 96 [The] Canada Jay..regularly visits, if it does not breed, in Maine or New Hampshire.
a. To go to (a temple, shrine, etc.) for the purpose of worship or as a religious duty.
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society > faith > worship > pilgrimage > make a pilgrimage [verb (transitive)]
visita1340
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxvi. 8 Þat i see þe will of lord & visite his tempile.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 53 Whan Kyng Henry had i-visited mekeliche Thomas þe martires tombe.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 3094 Þer was a lady dwellyng in þat abbay Þat wold vysed hurre tombe everyche day.
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. v. x. 1887 Þis lady wowit gret pilgramage,..And wissit hir goddis, ane and ane.
1465 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 529 I pray yow vysyt þe Rood of Northedor, and Seynt Sauyour..and let my sustyr Margery goo wyth yow to prey to them.
?1482 J. Kay tr. G. Caoursin Siege of Rhodes Hys entente and purpos was: to vysyte deuoutely the blessyd and holy sepulchre..in Ierusalem.
1509 J. Fisher Mornynge Remembraunce Countesse of Rychemonde (de Worde) sig. Bi v Her legges and fete [had been occupied] in vysytynge the aulters and other holy places.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lx. 209 We are goynge a pylgremage..to vysyt the holy sepulcure.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 614 In Thagia is visited the Sepulchre of a holy man.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 146 His Mother's Precepts he performs with care; The Temples visits, and adores with Pray'r. View more context for this quotation
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Sepulcher The Eastern Pilgrimages are all made with Design to visit the Holy Sepulcher.
1825 W. Scott Betrothed Concl., in Tales Crusaders II. 337 The pilgrim..carried a palm branch in his hand, to show he had visited the Holy Land.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 92/1 Chinese converts [to Buddhism]..came to visit the holy places and to collect the sacred books.
b. To go to (a place) for the purpose of sightseeing or pleasure, or on some special errand.
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society > travel > [verb (transitive)] > visit a place
seeeOE
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teemc1275
visitc1400
apply1510
vizy1535
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > outing or excursion > take on outing or excursion [verb (transitive)] > visit a place
visitc1400
c1400 Rom. Rose 7619 This knowe ye, sir, as wel as I, That lovers gladly wole visiten The places there her loves habiten.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xv. 70 Þe whilk in swilk maner visitez all rewmes fer to aspie þe maners of vs Cristen men.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 3428 Bot in short tyme after þis His owne contrey visitede he wold.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezra vii. 14 Beynge sent of the kynge and of the seuen lordes of the councell, to vyset Iuda and Ierusalem.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 240 They had seine and visitit the maist pairt of scotland.
1593 J. Norden Speculum Brit.: Cornwall (1728) 35 A like hamlet..moste visited with Tynners, where they lodge and feede, being nere their mynes.
1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. viii. 364 A French Lapidator,..intending to visit Fez, ioyned company with me.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 7 Wee were to have visited a small Iland called Soll; by the intreatie of a Portugall wee carried with us.
1693 Dowdall in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 417 The 1st Remarkable place in this County yt I visitted was Stratford super avon.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. vi. 143 He designed to visit again, at midnight, the fortress of Paluzzi.
1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott I. vii. 210 It was also..at this time that Scott visited for the first time Glammis.
1854 Poultry Chron. 2 249/2 About 4000 persons visited the poultry tent in the course of the day.
1863 C. Lyell Geol. Evid. Antiq. Man 2 I have visited..many parts of England, France and Belgium.
c. transferred. Of things.Sometimes with suggestion of sense 8.
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1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 256 + 8 All places that the eie of heauen visits . View more context for this quotation
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xxvii. 201 There are partes whereas the sea enters far within the land, as comming to visite it.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. viii. 230 Forasmuch as those places are never visited with the sunne.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 289 You are..As deere to me, as are the ruddy droppes That visit my sad heart. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 240 How from that Saphire Fount the crisped Brooks..Ran Nectar, visiting each plant. View more context for this quotation
1757 T. Gray Ode II i. iii, in Odes 15 Dear, as the light, that visits these sad eyes.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 351 The Seine..runs to the northwest, visiting Troyes, Paris, and Rouen, in its way.
1817 P. B. Shelley Mont Blanc iii, in Hist. Six Weeks' Tour 178 Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep.
1847 R. W. Emerson Musketaquid 12 For me in showers, in sweeping showers, the spring Visits the valley.
d. Of birds, etc.: to resort to or frequent (land or sea, a country, etc.) for a limited period or at certain seasons.
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the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (transitive)] > migrate
visit1774
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VI. 92 As they never visit land,..their feathers take a colour from their situation.
1802 G. Montagu Ornithol. Dict. at Blackcap The blackcap is a migrative species visiting us early in the spring.
1840 E. Blyth et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 199 The Mountain Chaffinch..which visits Britain in Winter.
1887 Newton in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 577 In winter the Storks of Europe retire to Africa,..while those of Asia visit India.
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the world > action or operation > advantage > be advantageous or beneficial to [verb (transitive)] > supply with some benefit
visita1400
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the mind > possession > giving > give [verb (transitive)] > present > present with as a gift > bring to as a gift or benefit
visita1400
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 18158 Þe lem þat come wit him, Brast all þe bandes of ur sete, And visite vs wit grett delite.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 1726 Thynk one þe valyaunt prynce þat vesettez us ever With landez and lordscheppez, whare us beste lykes.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. ii. 82 Visit by night your Ladies chamber-window With some sweet Consort. View more context for this quotation
1645 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) I. 637 God visiteth his [people] with mercies.
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