admittern.
/ədˈmɪtə/, U.S. /ədˈmɪdər/ A person who or thing which admits somebody or something (in various senses of the verb).
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the mind > language > statement > acceptance, reception, or admission > [noun] > one who
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > introduction or bringing in > [noun] > reception > one who admits or receives
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] > letting in or fact of being let in > specifically of a person to a place > one who
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1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xliii. 284 The admitters to schooles haue a great charge.
a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1673) i. 284 The first admitters of all ground of Science.
1709 Appeal both to Learned & Unlearned 7 We would Enquire, whether to Cry up the Opinions of those two Gentlemen, known by the name of Free admitters, would not be a notorious Apostasy.
1796 J. Crowther Christian Order 8 They would virtually be the admitters and the excluders of all the private members of the society.
1837 Rep. from Commissioners XXXVIII. 10 The Chancellor is the admitter to all the higher offices.
1875 Q. Jrnl. Sci. Jan. 39 Neither spiritualists nor admitters of historical miracle, then, believe..any interruption of natural law.
1904 Motor 8 Mar. 140/1 We finished our automatic governor and auxiliary air admitter.
1990 Amer. Jrnl. Orthopsychiat. 60 461/1 Equal numbers of those who admitted the charges (the admitters) and those who denied them (the deniers) were obtained.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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