[f. VISITOR 1 + -SHIP.] The office or dignity of an official visitor.
1886. L. O. Pike, Yearbks. 13 & 14 Edw. III., Introd. p. lxvii. The visitorship was in the Treasurer on the King’s behalf.
1894. Nation (N.Y.), 19 July, 49/1. Thus Balliol stands alone among the twenty-one Oxford Colleges in having the power to bestow the visitorship just given to Mr. Peel.
