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

Failure to be admitted.

Lit., previous admission; specif. (Engin.),

The act of admitting again, or the state of being readmitted; as, the readmission fresh air into an exhausted receiver; the readmission of a student into a seminary.

A coming to, or near approach; admittance; admission; accessibility; as, to gain access to a prince. I did repel his letters, and denied His access to me. Shak.

The act of acknowledging; admission; avowal; owning; confession. "An acknowledgment of fault." Froude.

Admission; approach; access. [R.] Yourself and yours shall have Free adit. Tennyson.

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

Pertaining to admission.

Concession; admission; allowance; as, the admittance of an argument. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The certificate of admission given in some American colleges.

Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

The admission of an item in an account, or an allowance made upon an account; -- a term used in the English exchequer.

acknowledgment intended as an atonement for some improper or injurious remark or act; an admission to another of a wrong or discourtesy done him, accompanied by an expression of regret.

e, are nearly in equilibrium; esp., a puppet valve which is made to operate easily by the admission of steam to both sides. See Puppet valve. -- Hydrostatic balance. See under Hydrostatic. -- To lay in balance, to put up as a pledge or security. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To strike a balance, to find out the difference betw…

s with a view to obtaining the ayes and noes from the persons named. -- Call to the bar, admission to practice in the courts.

rch, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.

om positive evidence in that the latter is the testimony of eyewitnesses to a fact or the admission of a party; but the prevalent opinion now is that all such testimony is dependent on circumstances for its support. All testimony is more or less circumstantial. Wharton.

A thing yielded; an acknowledgment or admission; a boon; a grant; esp. a grant by government of a privilege or right to do something; as, a concession to build a canal. This is therefore a concession , that he doth . . . believe the Scriptures to be sufficiently plain. Sharp. When a lover becomes satisfied by small com…

Acknowledgment; avowal, especially in a matter pertaining to one's self; the admission of a debt, obligation, or crime. With a crafty madness keeps aloof, When we would bring him on to some confession Of his true state. Shak.