visitatorial Meaning, Definition & Usage

Vis`it*a*to"ri*al adjective

Etymology

Cf. LL. visitator a bishop temporarily put in place of another.

Definitions

1. Of or pertaining to visitation, or a judicial visitor or superintendent; visitorial.

   An archdeacon has visitatorial power. Ayliffe.

   The queen, however, still had over the church a visitatorial power of vast and undefined extent. Macaulay.