1. The act or practice of admitting.
2. Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
What numbers groan for sad admission there!
Young.
3. The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something serted; acknowledgment; concession.
The too easy admission of doctrines.
Macaulay.
4. (Law) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a
confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made
without such inquiry.
5. A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.
6. (Eng. Eccl. Law) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to
serve the cure of the church to which he is presented. Shipley.
Syn. — Admittance; concession; acknowledgment; concurrence; allowance. See Admittance.
Admissive
(Ad*mis"sive) a. Implying an admission; tending to admit. [R.] Lamb.
Admissory
(Ad*mis"so*ry) a. Pertaining to admission.
Admit
(Ad*mit") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Admitted; p. pr. & vb. n. Admitting.] [OE. amitten, L. admittere,
admissum; ad + mittere to send: cf. F. admettre, OF. admettre, OF. ametre. See Missile.]
1. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to
take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial
of a cause.
2. To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
3. To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as,
to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.
4. To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to
own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.
5. To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be
used after the verb, or may be omitted.
Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king.
Hume.
Admittable
(Ad*mit"ta*ble) a. Admissible. Sir T. Browne.
Admittance
(Ad*mit"tance) n.
1. The act of admitting.
