Admit \Ad*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Admitted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Admitting}.] [OE. amitten, L. admittere, admissum; ad + mittere to send: cf. F. admettre, OF. admettre, OF. ametre. See {Missile}.] 1. 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.
2. To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
3. To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.
4. 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.
5. To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. --Hume.
But the treaty foes admit they have an uphill fight, since many of those they hope to woo are Reagan loyalists.
Unfortunately, I also have to admit that the study of catalogs has raised for me as many important questions as it has answered.
Yeah, I know, the thing is commercial, but you gotta admit it's cute.
But having set up a powerful broadcast network, industry executives admit it has become impossible to control completely.
While Bush was quick to pounce on Dukakis' opposition to the MX and Midgetman, he was slower to admit that he could not afford both, if elected.
The swim club's pool policy became the talk of the town, though, after it refused to admit the black church members who were part of a group of 66 who had spent the day renovating a dilapidated home.
The move follows the decision announced Thursday by Britain's chief scout, Garth Morrison, to admit girls.
Bond dealers in London admit that hardly any foreign market operators have a detailed understanding of the nature of the constitutional reforms.
We readily admit that this will not be easy to accomplish.
The international group can admit both Soviet associations.
In the health field, authorities admit their system of free medical care is woefully inadequate.
"If we make a mistake we're happy to admit it."
The U.S. has said the 1990 Soviet immigration ceiling is higher than the roughly 50,000 Soviets the United States will admit this year.
Hong Kong's labor shortage prompts many businessmen to want immigration rules eased to admit more foreign workers, and construction begun on major projects like a new airport.
While plastic surgeons admit they can't cure Down's syndrome, they say a procedure known as craniofacial reconstruction may increase their patients' self-esteem by giving them more "normal" facial features.
'I believe that in west Germany, you are not meant to admit that you lack self-confidence.' Katharina Gruhl, a 30-year-old west Berliner who runs her own management consultancy agency, approached Schlingelhof 'because I wanted to project myself.
The 8,000 refugees are among the 10,000 that President Bush last October decided to admit in the current fiscal year if private funding was obtained.
But unless there's a crisis such as a Wall Street crash or runaway inflation, "they are not willing to admit that they or their programs should be a part of the solution." "There's a key element missing from the budget debate.
After assuring parliament in November that the federal deficit this year would be 29 billion marks, the finance minister was forced to admit he reckoned wrongly.
"We must admit this kind of investing isn't healthy," says Izumi Kakimoto, a portfolio manager at Yasuda Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s New York office.
We must admit our weakness and move on to get professional training in the areas of speechmaking, interviews and image enhancement.
Multibank said that in reaching the settlement, it didn't admit liability.
Under terms of the settlement, the company didn't admit any wrongdoing.
I was raised in a generation that was taught to appreciate the virtues of modern art, from Renoir to Picasso and even to Jackson Pollock and "abstract expressionism," though I had to admit that this last stage had no appeal to me.
"I must admit I am a bit worried about that," said a northern European diplomat.
But the automaker does not admit to discriminating against blacks in pay and promotions.
They include the United States and Soviet Union, the only two countries that admit having the weapons.
"I think he has to admit that the policy was flawed.
In fact, some of them are much easier than people admit. Most catalogues still list a bright red flowering carpet of a plant as zauschneria, although botanists have re-named it.
Few people admit knowing Anna Krampitz well, and those who did declined to talk about her.