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The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something The too easy admission of doctrines. Macaulay.

To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

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

To increase or make progress in any respect; as, to advance in knowledge, in stature, in years, in price.

tage ground. [R.] Clarendon. -- To have the advantage of (any one), to have a personal knowledge of one who does not have a reciprocal knowledge. "You have the advantage of me; I don't remember ever to have had the honor." Sheridan. -- To take advantage of, to profit by; (often used in a bad sense) to overreach, to o…

Deliberate consideration; knowledge. [Obs.] How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her Shak.

A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration. A poet writing against his genius will be like a prophet without his afflatus. Spence.

Acknowledgment. [Obs.] Grafton.

To recognize; to acknowledge. [Archaic] I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity. Shak.

One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.

Earlier form of Acknow. [Obs.] To be aknow, to acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.]

Divination by means of barley meal. Knowles.

A group of birds including the common fowl and the pheasants.

A star in the tail of the Great Bear, the one next the bowl in the Dipper.

estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

nted with that which Providence allots him. Ten years I will allot to the attainment of knowledge. Johnson.

To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition. I allow, with Mrs. Grundy and most moralists, that Miss Newcome's conduct . . . was highly reprehensible. Thackeray.

Acknowledgment. The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak.

By the length of, as distinguished from across. "Along the lowly lands." Dryden. The kine . . . went along the highway. 1 Sam. vi. 12.

One of the several species of howling monkeys of South America. See Howler, 2.