admit

admit
admittable, admittible, adj.admitter, n.
/ad mit"/, v., admitted, admitting.
v.t.
1. to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
2. to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.
3. to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar.
4. to permit; allow.
5. to allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument.
6. to acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt.
7. to grant in argument; concede: The fact is admitted.
8. to have capacity for: This passage admits two abreast.
v.i.
9. to permit entrance; give access: This door admits to the garden.
10. to grant opportunity or permission (usually fol. by of): The contract admits of no other interpretation.
[1375-1425; < L admittere, equiv. to ad- AD- + mittere to send, let go; r. late ME amitte, with a- A-5 (instead of ad-) < MF amettre < L, as above]
Syn. 1. receive. 6. own, avow. See acknowledge.

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