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admit, v.|ædˈmɪt|
Also 5–6 amit, amitte, amytte.
[orig. a. OFr. amett-re:—L. admitt-ĕre to let to or into; f. ad to + mittĕre to send, let go. In 15th c. the Fr. was refashioned after L. as admettre, in the wake of which the Eng. also became admit.]
To let come or go in, (1) willingly, as a person does, (2) by physical capacity as a thing. The secondary meanings are earlier in Eng. than the primary, for which native words were in use.
I. As the action of a voluntary agent.
1. To allow to enter, let in, receive (a person or thing).
a. (to or into a place, real or ideal).
1530Palsgr. 417/2, I admyt or retain to a rome or otherwyse, Je admets. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 596 The heart Of Adam, soon enclin'd to admit delight. 1713Swift Cadenus Wks. 1755 III. ii. 17 Yet some of either sex..She condescended to admit. 1755Johnson Dict. Pref., Obsolete words are admitted, when they are found in authours not obsolete. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xxxii. 2 No other thought her mind admits. 1860Tyndall Glaciers i. §25. 184, I had opened the little window of the cabin to admit some air.
b. into any office, position, or relation; spec. in Law, into the possession of a copyhold estate.
1473J. Warkworth Chron. 13 Kynge Herry was amitted to his crowne and dignite ageyne. c1480Childe of Bristowe 57 in Hazl. E.P. Poetry 113 Any science that is trouthe y shal amytte me therto. 1494Fabyan v. cxxviii. 110 Woldist thou not admit suche one for thy freende? 1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. of M. Aurel. (1546) L vj, They amytted hym a citezen and dweller in Rome. 1660Jer. Taylor Worthy Commun. i. §2. 38 We are admitted to pardon of our sins if we repent. 1713Guardian No. 2 (1756) I. 13, I was admitted a commoner of Magdalen-Hall in Oxford. 1715Burnet Hist. own Times i. (R.) The triers of all those who were to be admitted to benefices. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 203 If the tenant..does not within a limited time apply to the court to be admitted a defendant. 1809Tomlins Law Dict. s.v. Copyhold, If the lord refuses to admit he shall be compelled in Chancery..But that Court will not grant a mandamus to admit a copyholder by descent. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. IV. xviii. 127 With what readiness they were admitted to the royal kiss. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 49 Begging that we would admit his prisoners to ransom.
c. to do anything.
1413Lydg. Pylgr. Sowle i. viii. (1859) 6 In euery ryghtwys court skyle is that the actour is admytted to maken his compleynt. 1538Starkey England 192 Only such..schold be admyttyd to practyse in causys. 1722De Foe Hist. Plague 55 The houses and villages refusing to admit them to lodge. 1747in Col. Rec. Penn. V. 113 The Ship was admitted to come up to the City.
†d. into the number or fellowship of. Obs.
1632Milton L'Allegro 38 Mirth, admit me of thy crew. 1713Guardian No. 151 (1756) II. 265 Jack..was sent up to London, to be admitted of the Temple. 1788New Lond. Mag. 157 Who afterwards admitted him of his Privy-Council.
2. fig. To allow a matter to enter into any relation to action or thought.
a. To consent to the performance, doing, realization, or existence of; to allow, permit, grant.
a1423James I King's Quair iv. ix, Gif mercy sall admitten thy servise. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 169/1 They wold not accorde that he shold be amytted to be worshypped. 1513Douglas æneis v. xiii. 72 Amit [v.r. admit] my asking, gif so the fatis gydis. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. i. ii. 45 She will admit no kinde of suite, No, not the Duke's. 1682–3Penn. Arch. I. 55 Desiring thee to admitt, that the people may have the Nomination. c1750Shenstone Elegy xvii. 1 Stern Monarch of the winds! admit my pray'r. 1817Jas. Mill Brit. Ind. II. v. v. 534 Tippoo, in the mean time, had admitted no delay.
b. To allow or receive as valid or lawful; to acknowledge.
1538Starkey England iv. 125 Seyng you graunte the Pope..to be hede..you must need admit also apellatyon thereto. 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 200 Let vs heare them speake, Whose title they admit, Arthurs or Iohns. 1805Wellesley Desp. 451 We did not admit his claim to tribute. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 208 His power to dispense with Acts of Parliament had been admitted.
c. To accept as true, or as a fact, to concede.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 1557, 668/1 That the scripture is not true, but because y⊇ churche saith so and admyt it. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. ii. iv. 159 Though an Eternal Succession of Men were admitted. 1777Priestley Matt. & Spir. xx. (1782) I. 257 Descartes'..principle was admitting nothing but what his own consciousness obliged him to admit. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 155 Admitting the virtues of the late king. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. I. v. 330 The outline of the story may, I think, be admitted.
d. With subord. clause. To allow, concede, grant (either from conviction, or for the sake of argument).
1538Starkey England 107 Hyt ys to be admyttyd..that then a nother ys to be chosen. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 197 But admit he were able to bring an hundred thousand. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece i. xxvi. (1715) I. 173 All Genuine Citizens.. shall have permission of leaving their Estates to whom they will, admit they have no Male-children alive. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 159 The moderate Episcopalians would admit that a bishop might lawfully be assisted by a council.
¶ In these senses admit is sometimes followed by of.
1649Selden Laws of Eng. i. lix. (1739) 110 Had she been as willing to have admitted of the Laws. 1699Bentley Phalaris 62 We admit of the present Calculation. 1774Chesterfield Lett. I. xiii. 43 Luxury and ease were not admitted of at Sparta. 1828Scott F.M. Perth I. 4 With our equals in age only, for in dignity we admit of none.
e. admit to (something): to acknowledge (a weakness, etc.); to confess to (doing or being something).
1936‘M. Innes’ Death at President's Lodging viii. 148, I felt at the time, I think, that I would rather be hanged than admit to it. 1963‘J. le Carré’ Spy who came in from Cold x. 95 Money like that was a douceur for discomforts and dangers Control would not openly admit to. 1968S. Hill Gentleman & Ladies xi. 148 Now perhaps you will admit to a condition of forgetfulness? 1980Washington Post 12 June d1/6 Brown..admits to ‘a weakness for blondes’.
II. As the action of an involuntary agent.
3. trans. To be the channel or means of admission to; to afford entrance, let in. Also absol.
1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1732) App. 7 Compassed with good Walls and five Gates, which admitted into it. Mod. This order admits the whole party. The ticket admits to the meeting, but not to the conference. A key which admits to the garden.
4. To have the capacity to allow to enter, to have room for.
1661Dryden Coron. Chas. II, 66 Not that our wishes do increase your store, Full of yourself, you can admit no more. 1781J. Moore View of Soc. xli. (1790) I. 451 A staircase sufficiently wide to admit a man to ascend. 1789–96J. Morse Amer. Geog. II. 24 [A] commodious harbour, which admits only one ship to enter it at a time. Mod. The passage admits two abreast.
5. To allow of the co-existence or presence of; to lie open to, be capable of, or compatible with.
a. trans. Obs. or arch.
1538Starkey England ii. 45 Me semyth felycyte ys the most perfayt state, wych admyttyth no degre. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iv. iv. 9 My loue admits no qualifying crosse. 1699Bentley Phalaris 407 Προτρέπω in the sense of Exhortation admits a Dative Case after it. 1803Wellesley Desp. 228 This movement admits the uninterrupted march of the combined forces. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cvii. 5 The time admits not flowers or leaves To deck the banquet.
b. with of.
1718Free-thinker No. 65, 67 This is a character in Life, the sublimity of which admits not of Mediocrity. 1802M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1866) 216 Her son's conduct admitted..of no apology. 1873Max Müller Science of Rel. 284 So firmly established as hardly to admit of the possibility of a doubt. |