单词 | visitable |
释义 | visitableadj. 1. Of institutions, etc.: Liable to visitation by some competent authority; subject to official supervision or inspection. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [adjective] > liable to visitation visitable1605 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > inspection, survey > [adjective] > liable to visitation visitable1726 1605 E. Coke Rep. v. 15/2 All religious or Ecclesiastical houses, whereof the king was founder, are..only visitable and corrigible by the kings ecclesiasticall Commission. 1661 J. Stephens Hist. Disc. Procur. 40 When those Religious persons..had relinquished their habit, rule, and order, for which they were visitable, then..the Visitation ceased. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 295 All..Hospitals..built since the Reformation are Visitable by the King or Lord-Chancellor. 1767 R. Burn Eccl. Law (ed. 2) IV. 12 Free chapels..being visitable only by commission from the king. 1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 39 §4 In all cases such holder shall be visitable by the Visitor of the Chapter. 1895 R. Phillimore 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. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [adjective] > visited > able to be visitablea1701 society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [adjective] > capable of being visited visitablea1701 society > leisure > social event > visit > visiting > [adjective] > capable of being visited > specifically of people visitable1842 a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 102 In order to see the Sanctuaries, and other visitable places. 1837 New Monthly Mag. 51 192 Richmond..might..thus be rendered visitable by tourists. 1842 Sir J. Graham in Illustr. London News 14 May 7/1 The children easily visitable by their parents. 1876 J. Ruskin St. Mark's Rest i. §2 The most beautiful columns at present extant and erect in the conveniently visitable world. 1896 Advance (Chicago) 4 June 811/1 The tropics are visitable in the winter only, and then the preacher is busiest. 1953 John o' London's Weekly 12 June 519/1 He was also known as a charming and eminently visitable old gentleman. 1972 Maclean's Mar. 57/3 While it has it share of visitable old buildings Rijeka is more European than most Yugoslav cities. 1983 R. Muir in Muir & Welfare National Trust Guide Prehistoric & Roman Britain ii. 27/2 There are few exciting and visitable relics of [Mesolithic] human life apart from caves. 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. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > aristocracy or upper class > [adjective] > having good social position goodOE conditioned1632 visitable1765 swell1810 well-placed1814 silver-tail1898 quite1907 1765 W. Cowper Let. 18 Oct. (1979) I. 120 In about 2 Months after my Arrival, I became known to all the Visitable People here. 1835 Court Mag. 6 186/1 The Orange Grove! I was not aware that visitable people ever resided there! 1851 M. F. Tupper Castle Cornet 309 The landlords, having no visitable neighbours, no society within many miles, are necessarily absentees. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. iv. 71 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. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [adjective] > able to be visited > by clergyman visitable1904 1904 R. Small Hist. Congregations United Presbyterian Church I. 474 In the southern division..there were only ninety visitable families at that time. 4. Such as admits of receiving visitors. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [adjective] > able to be visited visible1722 visitable1864 1864 Keble 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. 1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. xxv. 538 Her cold, or whatever it was, had affected her face and eyes; she was not really in visitable condition. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1605 |
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