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ing admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible. -- Ad*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Ad*mis"si*bly, adv.

Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach. What numbers groan for sad admission there! Young.

Implying an admission; tending to admit. [R.] Lamb.

Pertaining to admission.

To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. [Obs.] Spenser.

Starvation. Bp. Hall.

An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage. Foxe.

One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.

One prone to sound or excite alarms, especially, needless alarms. Macaulay.

One who practices alchemy. You are alchemist; make gold. Shak.

Relating to or practicing alchemy. Metaphysical and alchemistical legislators. Burke.

Alchemy. [Obs.]

See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy.

Somewhat like alum.

The Amish Mennonites.

Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.…

The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. [R.] Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam.

Liable to be lost. [R.]

Deprivation; loss. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The application of the principles of anatomy, as in art. The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [i. e., the French] great figure painters. The London Spectator.