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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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