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Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I…

Colorado; -- a nickname alluding to the fact that it was admitted to the Union in the centennial year, 1876.

in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale. Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing. Holder. Change of life, the period in the life of a woman when menstruation and the capacity for conception cease, usually occurring between forty-five and fifty years of age. -- Change ringi…

Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.

To admit as suitable to a civilized state. [Obs. or R.] "Civilizing adultery." Milton.

Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.

Entitled to, or admitting, the benefit of clergy; as, a clergyable felony. Blackstone.

onship. That the duty of cohabitation is released by the cruelty of one of the parties is admitted. Lord Stowell.

t. (f) To take sides; to take a stand; as, he came out against the tariff.(g) To publicly admit oneself to be homosexual. -- To come out with, to give publicity to; to disclose. -- To come over. (a) To pass from one side or place to another. "Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to them." Addison.…

A skylight on an upper deck with frames and sashes of various shapes, to admit light to a cabin or lower deck.

To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier. I should compare with him in excellence. Shak.

The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.

To admit to be true; to acknowledge. We concede that their citizens were those who lived under different forms. Burke.

ke acknowledgment or avowal in a matter pertaining to one's self; to acknowledge, own, or admit, as a crime, a fault, a debt. And there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg. Milton. I must confess I was most pleased with a beautiful prospect that none of them have mentioned. Addison.

im in the swindler. -- Confidence man, a swindler. -- To take into one's confidence, to admit to a knowledge of one's feelings, purposes, or affairs.

A rite supplemental to baptism, by which a person is admitted, through the laying on of the hands of a bishop, to the full privileges of the church, as in the Roman Catholic, the Episcopal Church, etc. This ordinance is called confirmation, because they who duly receive it are confirmed or strengthened for the fulfillm…

To grant; to allow; to assent to; to admit. [Obs.] Interpreters . . . will not consent it to be a true story. Milton.

Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.

The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.

isorderly persons are confined; a bridewell. -- Under correction, subject to correction; admitting the possibility of error.