admission (admishon)

[ Some minds seem well glazed by nature against the ad mi ion of knowledge. George Eliot , Theophrastus Such, p. 91. 2. Admittance; power or permi ion to enter; entrance; acce ; power to approach: as, to grant a person admi ion . I... applied to one of the vergers for admi ion to the library. Irving , Mutability of Lit. 3. The price paid for entrance; admi ion fee: as, the admi ion was one dollar.-4. Eccles.: (a) In the Church of England, an act of a bishop accepting a candidate presented to a benefice. (b) In the Presbyterian churches, especially in Scotland, a similar official act of a presbytery admitting a minister to his church. -5. The act of expre ing a ent to an argument or proposition, especially one urged by an opponent or adversary; hence, a point or statement admitted; conce ion; allowance: as, this admi ion lost him the argument.-6. Acknowledgment; confe ion of a charge, an error, or a crime: as, he made full admi ion of his guilt. Maggie had no sooner uttered this entreaty than she was wretched at the admi ion it implied. George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , vi. 9. that something is true. Admi ions in an action 7. In law: (a) A voluntary acknowledgment may be made by a party to it, or by his attorney, in writing or in open court. Other admi ions, whether by word serious thought into the mind. Mirth, admit me of thy crew. Milton, L'Allegro, 1. 38. O, I am a brute, when I but admit a doubt of your true constancy! Sheridan, The Rivals, iii. 2. 2. To give right or means of entrance to: as, a ticket admits one into a theater; this key will admit you to the garden.-3. To permit to exercise a certain function; grant power to hold a certain office: as, he was admitted to the bar; to admit a man to the ministry.-4. Το have capacity for the admi ion of at one time: as, this pa age admits two abreast.-5. To grant in argument; receive as true; concede; allow: as, the argument or fact is admitted. It was admitted that the heavy expenditure which had been occasioned by the late troubles justified the king in asking some further supply. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. It is so hard for shrewdne to admit Folly means no harm when she calls black white! Browning, Ring and Book, I. 36. 6. To permit, grant, allow, or be capable of: as, the words do not admit such a construction. See II.-7. To acknowledge; own; confe : as, he admitted his guilt. = Syn. Acknowledge, Ad mit, Confe , etc. (see acknowledge ); to let in, receive, take in. II. in trans. To give warrant or allowance; grant opportunity or permi ion: with of : as, circumstances do not admit of this; the text does not admit of this interpretation. Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of. Thoreau, Walden, p. 33. To answer a question so as to admit of no reply, is the test of a man, -to touch bottom every time. Emerson , Clubs. admittable (ad-mit'a-bl), a. [ [Bacon's philosophy] found no difficulty in gaining ad mittance, without a contest, into every understanding to receive her. Macaulay , Lord Bacon. fitted 3t. Conce ion; admi ion; allowance: as, the admittance of an argument.-4. The custom or privilege of being admitted to the society of the great. grea Sir John,. you are a gentleman of excellent breeding, of great admittance . Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 2. 5. In law , the giving po e ion of a copyhold estate. Syn. 1 and 2. Admittance, Admi ion , introduction, initiation, reception, welcome, acce . In the separation of admittance and admi ion , the latter has taken the figurative senses, while not yet wholly abandoning to the former the literal ones. Hence in its figurative use admi ion has meanings that admittance has not. When admi ion has the literal meaning, its use is generally broader, having le definitene with respect to place. No admittance except through the office; admi ion to the harbor; admi ion to the peerage; he gave no admis sion to unkind thoughts; admi ion of a fault. Perhaps admi ion implies somewhat more of selection or judgment pa ed upon the person admitted: as, admi ion to society. He [the traveler] must obtain admittance to the convivial table and the domestic hearth. Macaulay , Hist. Eng. When once love pleads admi ion to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, The woman who deliberates is lost. Add is on , Cato, iv. 1. obliged for admi ion Bancroft, Hist. Const., Pref. It is to M. Guizot that I was. to the French archives. admittatur (ad-mi-ta'ter), n. [L., let him be admitted, 3d pers. sing. pres. subj. pa . of, admittere, admit: see admit. ) A certificate of The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary admittatur admi ion to membership in a university or college. admittedly (ad-mit'ed-li), adv. In an acknowledged manner; confe edly. The influence of ocean-currents in the distribution of heat over the surface of the globe would still be admit tedly erroneous. J. Croll , Climate and Time, p. 52. admit ten do clerico (ad-mi-ten'dō kler'i-kō). [ML., for admitting a clerk (clergyman): L. ad mitten do , abl. of admit tendus , gerund of admit tere , admit: see admit ; ML. clerico , abl. of cleri cus , a clerk: see clerk .] An old English writ, i ued to the bishop instead of to the sheriff as in ordinary actions, to enforce a judgment es IMG:content-0278.png:[blocks in formation] way of admonition; in an admonishing manner. admonishment (ad-mon'ish-ment), n. Admonition; counsel; warning. [Rare.] When was my lord so much ungently temper'd To stop his ears against admonishment? Unarm, unarm, and do not fight to-day. Shak., T. and C., v. 3. Thy grave admonishments prevail with me. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., ii. 5. monitor i us; cf. admonitorium, an admonition.] Containing admonition; tending or serving to admonish: as, " admonitory of duty," Barrow, Works, I. 430. She held up her small hand with an admonitory gesture. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, ix. admonitrix (ad-mon'i-triks), (ad-mon'i-triks), n.; pl. admonitrices (ad-mon-i-tri'sēz). [L., fem. of admonitor, q. v.] A female admonitor; a monitre . N. admortization (ad-môr-ti-zā'shon), n. Same as amortization. admonition (ad-mo-nish'on), n. [ cion , -oun, a monition , later admonition , admonitio (n-), admonere , advise, admonish: see admonish .] 1. The act, or an act, of ad- monishing; counsel or advice; gentle reproof; sent at i on to a benefice. admit ten do in socium (ad-mi-ten'dō in sō'shi-um). [ML., for admitting as an a ociate: L. admit ten do: see above; in, to, as; socium, acc. of socius, a fellow, a ociate: see social.] An old English writ addre ed to justices of a ize requiring them to a ociate with themselves other designated persons, commonly knights of the county, in holding a izes at the circuit. admitter (ad-mit'er), n. One who or that which admits.