visitatorial

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visitatorial - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Visitatorial \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.
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           An archdeacon has visitatorial power.    --Ayliffe.
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           The queen, however, still had over the church a
           visitatorial power of vast and undefined extent.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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