visitorial

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adjective

Of, pertaining to, or having the power to make an official visitation

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Meanings

adjectivevisitorial (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf, pertaining to, or having the power to make an official visitation

    The court, he wrote, has always understood that visitorial powers are “quite separate” from the power to enforce the law, and the attorney general was acting in the role of “sovereign-as-law-enforcer” in seeking the information.

    2009 June 30, John Schwartz, “Justices Rule That States Can Press Bank Cases”, in New York Times

Origin

From visitor + -ial.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with visitorial

editorialmemorialtutorialequatorialterritorialjanitorialpictorialcombinatorialborealgubernatorialfactorialsenatorialdirectoriallorealdictatorialarmorialprosecutorialcuratorialcorporealimmemorialprofessorialarborealmultifactorialconspiratorial
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Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

visitorial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/visitorial

MLA

“visitorial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/visitorial. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “visitorial,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/visitorial.

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