ADMISSION

Definitions

1. 1. The act or practice of admitting.
2. 2. Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.
3. 3. The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay.
4. 4. 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. 5. A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.
6. 6. 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.