visitant

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who visits

   One who visits; a guest; a visitor.

   • One visit is enough to begin an acquaintance; and this point is gained by it, that when the visitant comes again, he is no more a stranger.
   • The Company had now ſtaid ſo long, that Mrs. Fitzpatrick plainly perceived they all deſigned to ſtay out each other. She therefore reſolved to rid herſelf of Jones, he being the Viſitant, to whom ſhe thought the leaſt Ceremony was due.
2. 2

   A spectre or ghost.

   • Matsumura felt almost sure that his ghostly visitant had been none other than the Soul of the Mirror.
3. 3

   A migratory bird that makes a temporary stop somewhere.

   • Reëstablishment of such facilities would probably soon draw occasional visitants in special need of rest in their desert flights.
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   1. 4

      Visiting.

      • 1677, Thomas d’Urfey, Madam Fickle, or, The Witty False One, London: James Magnes & Richard Bentley, Act III, Scene 2, p. 33, Now the plots unravell’d: I begin to have a knowledge of the visitant Kinsman that us’d to molest us.
      • Sermons were not encouraged, as the demand on the use of the famous altar by visitant priests and their pilgrims was heavy on Sunday mornings, and even a short sermon held up the next Mass on the list.

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