ppl. a. Also 6 vysset, vysyted. [f. VISIT v.]
† 1. Afflicted with illness; attacked by plague or other epidemic. Obs.
1537. Nottingham Rec., III. 375. This towne, the wheche dothe kepe the vysset folke at Bradmar.
1553. S. Cabot, Ordinances, in Hakluyt, Voy. (1589), 261. The sicke, diseased, weake, and visited person within boord to be … comforted and holpen.
1575. Nottingham Rec. (1889), IV. 159. Payd more for the charges of the vysyted woman at Hye Crosse xxiij d.
1604. F. Herring, Mod. Defence, B 2. He will not rush rashly into euery infected and visited house.
1640. Somner, Antiq. Canterb., 16. Convenient Pest-houses, and Receptacles for the poore visited people of the City.
1722. De Foe, Plague (1896), 33. If any person visited do fortune … to come … from a place infected to any other place.
2. That is the object of a visit or visits.
1673. O. Walker, Educ., II. i. 223. In receiving visits … the Gentlemen meet them at the bottom. It is alwaies observed that the visiteds Gentlemen attend one degree at least further then the Patron.
1754. World, No. 62, ¶ 9. The Visited in these cases … have invented on their parts several curious hints towards shortning the length of a Visitation.
1873. Smiles, Huguenots France, III. i. (1881), 383. Dauphiny is one of the least visited of all the provinces of France.
