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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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Word Origin & History

visit  (v.)
c.1225, "come to (a person) to comfort or benefit," from O.Fr. visiter, from L. visitare "to go to see, come to inspect," frequentative of visere "behold, visit" (a person or place), from pp. stem of videre "to see, notice, observe" (see vision). Originally of the deity, later of pastors and doctors (c.1300), general sense of "pay a call" is from 1626. Meaning "come upon, afflict" (in ref. to sickness, punishment, etc.) is recorded from c.1340. The noun is 1621, from the verb. Visitor is attested from 1426; sports sense is from 1900.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 2visit
Function: noun
1 : a professional call (as by a physician to treat a patient)
2 : a call upon a professionalperson (as a physician or dentist) for consultation or treatment visits to your dentist>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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