Admission

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The act or practice of admitting.

II. Admission ·noun Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.

III. Admission ·noun A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.

IV. Admission ·noun The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something /serted; acknowledgment; concession.

V. Admission ·noun 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.

VI. Admission ·noun 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.