ADMIT

ADMIT', verb transitive [Latin admitto, from ad and mitto, to send.]1. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance; whether into a place, or an office, or into the mind, or consideration; as to admit a student into college; to admit a serious thought into the mind.2. To give right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a play house.3. To allow; to receive as true; as, the argument or fact is admitted.4. To permit, grant or allow, or to be capable of; as, the words do not admit of such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or omitted.

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admit. Admit, v. to allow, suffer, grant, let in, receive

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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. 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. 2. To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
3. 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. 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. 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.