admission

Definitions

1. 1.Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.
2. 2.The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay.
3. 3.(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.
4. 4.A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.
5. 5.(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. See Admittance.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young called?
• What is the granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay called?
• What is a fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence called?
• What is 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. See Admittance called?