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One who admires; one who esteems or loves greatly. Cowper.

Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being 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.

The act or practice of admitting.

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.

Permission to enter; the power or right of entrance; also, actual entrance; reception. To gain admittance into the house. South. He desires admittance to the king. Dryden. To give admittance to a thought of fear. Shak.

Received as true or valid; acknowledged. -- Ad*mit"ted*ly adv.

To warn or notify of a fault; to reprove gently or kindly, but seriously; to exhort. "Admonish him as a brother." 2 Thess. iii. 15.

Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.

That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.

The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.

To move or conduct to or toward. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Growing to or on something else. "An adnascent plant." Evelyn.

Growing together; -- said only of organic cohesion of unlike parts. An anther is adnate when fixed by its whole length to the filament. Gray.

The adhesion or cohesion of different floral verticils or sets of organs.

An adjective, or attribute. [R.] Coleridge.

n unburnt brick dried in the sun; also used as an adjective, as, an adobe house, in Texas or New Mexico.

The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

itizen, etc. ; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child.

A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. […

The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.