a. [f. prec. or VISIT v.: see -ORIAL.]
1. = VISITATORIAL a. 1.
1813. Examiner, 24 May, 332/1. We held it to be beneath our visitorial functions.
1843. Lett. Suppress. Monast. (Camden), 71. One of the visitorial injunctions, in allusion to this class of students, directs [etc.].
1873. B. Gregory, Holy Catholic Ch., xv. 153. The visitorial authority of the itinerant Apostolate.
2. Capable of visiting.
1853. Taits Mag., XX. 486. The more terrible and supposed visible, or at least visitorial deities of the hideous Pantheon of the Hindoos.