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visitorial

visitorial adjective: of, pertaining to, or having the power to make an official visitation.

Adjective

visitorial (not comparable)

  1. Of, 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 of visitorial

From visitor + -ial.

Words that rhyme with visitorial

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Questions about visitorial

What does visitorial mean?
Visitorial means of, pertaining to, or having the power to make an official visitation.
What part of speech is visitorial?
Visitorial is an adjective.

Words near visitorial in the dictionary

  1. visitor pattern
  2. visitor patterns
  3. visitor team
  4. visitor teams
  5. visitor's book
  6. visitorial
  7. visitors
  8. visitors' book
  9. visitorship
  10. visitorships
  11. visitour

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