Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Admission

Admission ({not transcribed}) , noun

[Latin admissio: compare French admission. See Admit.]

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 asserted; 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. Ecclesiastical 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. — Shipley