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1 definition found 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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