Vis`it*a*to"ri*al (?), a. [Cf. LL. visitator a bishop temporarily put in place of another.]

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.

 

© Webster 1913.

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