Admit
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (v. t.) 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.
(2): (v. t.) 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.
(3): (v. t.) To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
(4): (v. t.) 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.
(5): (v. t.) 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.
King James Dictionary [2]
Admit', L. admitto, from ad and mitto, to send.
1. To suffer to enter to grant entrance whether into a place, or an office, or into the mind, or consideration as to admit a student into college to admit a serious thought into the mind. 2. To give right of entrance as, a ticket admits one into a play house. 3. To allow to receive as true as, the argument or fact is admitted. 4. To permit, grant or allow, or to be capable of as, the words do not admit of such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or omitted.
