Word Meanings - VISIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath. hath visited and redeemed his people. Like i. 68. (more info) 1.

Additional info about word: VISIT

To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding, comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear before or judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath. hath visited and redeemed his people. Like i. 68. (more info) 1. To go or come to see, as for the purpose of friendship, business, curiosity, etc.; to attend; to call upon; as, the physician visits his patient. 2. Specifically: To go or come to see for inspection, examination, correction of abuses, etc.; to examine, to inspect; as, a bishop visits his diocese; a superintendent visits persons or works under his charge.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of VISIT)

• Avenge
• Vindicate
• right
• visit
• retaliate
• See
• Perceive
• behold
• descry
• discern
• look
• view
• conceive
• distinguish
• understand
• comprehend
• attend
• beware
• experience
• Supervise
• Superintend
• control
• manage
• direct
• inspect
• overlook

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of VISIT)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct
• Evade
• escape
• miss
• lose

Related words: (words related to VISIT)

• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• BEHOLDER
  One who beholds; a spectator.
• INSPECTOR
  One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
  The state of being right with God; justification; the work of Christ, which is the ground justification. There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us, which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth of faith,
• AVENGERESS
  A female avenger. Spenser.
• VISITATION
  The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• BEHOLDING
  Obliged; beholden. I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father. Robynson So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.
• DIRECT NOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
• DIRECTRIX
  1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
• SUPERVISE
  to view, surely, intens. from videre, visum, to see. Cf. Survise, and 1. To oversee for direction; to superintend; to inspect with authority; as, to supervise the construction of a steam engine, or the printing of a book. 2. To look over so as
• INSPECTORSHIP
  1. The office of an inspector. 2. The district embraced by an inspector's jurisdiction.
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• BRIGHT
  See I
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• UNCOMPREHEND
  To fail to comprehend. Daniel.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• SHRIGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Shriek. She cried alway and shright. Chaucer.