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Перевод: visitation

[существительное]
объезд ; официальное посещение; осмотр ; досмотр ; продолжительный визит; испытание; кара

Тезаурус:

1. And this is one of the reasons for a fundamental element in the Benedictine tradition: the independence of each abbey from every other: an independence only mitigated in early days by the right of the bishop to visit - where the monastery had not asserted a right to be exempt from the bishop - and, from the thirteenth century on, by the formation of congregations of houses to establish some kind of common action, control and system of visitation.
2. (It is interesting to note that the Jeffery family have been in Donhead for centuries as The Visitation of Wilts 1565 records that the first wife of Alderman Thomas Pople of Salisbury, was "Katherine, daughter to John Jeffery of Doned Marie, Dorset".)
3. When in 1777 there were minor tremors in Manchester, he observed - not without a certain satisfaction - "There is no divine visitation which is likely to have so general an influence upon sinners as an earthquake."
4. Records of their findings now comprise the Library of Visitation Books of the College of Arms, and a number have been published by the Harleian Society.
5. He conducted a visitation every five years, when he went there and interviewed each individual member of the community and finally gave them all a charge.
6. Moreover, the officer of arms making the visitation was directed to enquire into the lives of all those using a title of honour or dignity such as knight, esquire or gentleman, and if such a title or coat of arms had been falsely assumed or usurped, the offender was to be publicly denounced by proclamation.
7. The visitation records have several values for the local historian.
8. It was not until several years later that they were able to unravel the possible cause of the visitation.
9. The left-hand miniature shows the Visitation against an architectural and landscape background.
10. However, it is possible that the fluid seen during that visitation once saturated the body but had leaked from the cadaver during the intervening 250 years and thence from the coffin, owing to seasonal fluctuations in the humidity within the vault.
11. The N transept is dominated by a Visitation by Kracker.
12. When Bishop Bowyer conducted a visitation in 1724 he found widespread non-residence, poor and ruinous churches and an inadequate performance of formal services, by under-paid curates.
13. The churchyard is said to be the scene of a visitation from a ghost - reputedly a "young man in black", who caused the frantic barking by a dog one evening and then promptly disappeared!