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Webster 1913 Edition
Admission
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 [GREEK]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 evidence6.
(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
. Webster 1828 Edition
Admission
ADMISS'ION
,Noun.
1.
The act or practice of admitting, as the admission of aliens into our country; also, the state of being admitted.2.
Admittancep power or permission to enter; entrance; access; power to approach; as, our laws give to foreigners easy admission to the rights of citizens; the admission of a clerk to a benefice.3.
Allowance; grant of an argument or position not fully proved.