ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Visitorial

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Visitorial is an adjective meaning Of, pertaining to, or having the power to make an official visitation.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include visitational, invitatory, viceregal, viatic, viatical, inspectional.

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