Admission

Definition of Admission

Ad`mis´sion
n.1.The act or practice of admitting.
2.Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
What numbers groan for sad admission there!
- Young.
3.The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something serted; acknowledgment; concession.
The too easy admission of doctrines.
- Macaulay.
4.(Law) Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
5.A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.
6.(Eng. Eccl. Law) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.

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