【Visit】 ,  【visitation】 ,  【call】  are comparable when they mean a coming to stay with another, usually for a brief time, as a courtesy, an act of friendship, or a business or professional duty.

【Visit】 applies not only to such a stay with another, but also, to a more prolonged stay as a house guest or in a place where one goes for rest, entertainment, or sightseeing.

【Visitation】  (see also TRIAL 2 ) is chiefly employed in reference to a formal or official 【visit】 (as to a church, a college, or a ship) made by one in authority (as an ecclesiastical superior, a school superintendent, or a medical inspector).

The term may also be used of something that visits one, often by or as if by the will of a superior power or that is visited upon one and that is usually regarded as an affliction.

【Call】 applies only to a brief 【visit】 , such as one makes upon a person who is not a friend, but with whom one has social or official relations or by a person in quest of business or of a business order. The term, however, may be used in place of  【visit】  for a short social 【visit】 .