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vis⋅it

  [viz-it]
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–verb (used with object)
1. to go to and stay with (a person or family) or at (a place) for a short time for reasons of sociability, politeness, business, curiosity, etc.: to visit a friend; to visit clients; to visit Paris.
2. to stay with as a guest.
3. to come or go to: to visit a church for prayer.
4. to go to for the purpose of official inspection or examination: a general visiting his troops.
5. to come to in order to comfort or aid: to visit the sick.
6. to come upon; assail; afflict: The plague visited London in 1665.
7. to cause trouble, suffering, etc., to come to: to visit him with sorrows.
8. to access, as a Web site.
9. to inflict, as punishment, vengeance, etc. (often fol. by on or upon).
–verb (used without object)
10. to make a visit.
11. to talk or chat casually: to visit on the phone with a friend.
12. to inflict punishment.
–noun
13. the act of or an instance of visiting: a nice, long visit.
14. a chat or talk: We had a good visit on the way back from the grocery store.
15. a call paid to a person, family, etc.
16. a stay or sojourn as a guest.
17. an official inspection or examination.
18. the act of an officer of a belligerent nation in boarding a vessel in order to ascertain the nature of its cargo, its nationality, etc.: the right of visit and search.
Origin:
1175–1225; ME visiten (v.) (< OF visiter) < L vīsitāre, freq. of vīsere to go to see, itself freq. of vidēre to see
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vis·it   (vĭz'ĭt)   
v.   vis·it·ed, vis·it·ing, vis·its

v.   tr.
    1. To call on socially: visit friends.
    2. To go to see or spend time at (a place) with a certain intent: visit a museum; visited London.
    3. To stay with as a guest.
    4. To go to see in an official or professional capacity: visited the dentist; a priest visiting his parishioners.
    5. To afflict or assail: A plague visited the village.
    6. To inflict punishment on or for; avenge: The sins of the ancestors were visited on their descendants.
  2. To go or come to: visits the bank on Fridays.
  3. To go to see in order to aid or console: visit the sick and dying.
  4. To make itself known to or seize fleetingly: was visited by a bizarre thought.
    1. To afflict or assail: A plague visited the village.
    2. To inflict punishment on or for; avenge: The sins of the ancestors were visited on their descendants.
v.   intr.
  1. To make a visit.
  2. Informal To converse or chat: Stay and visit with me for a while.
n.  
  1. The act or an instance of visiting a person, place, or thing.
  2. A stay or sojourn as a guest.
  3. The act of visiting in a professional capacity.
  4. The act of visiting in an official capacity, such as an inspection or examination.

[Middle English visiten, from Old French visiter, from Latin vīsitāre, frequentative of vīsere, to want to see, go to see, from vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]
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