Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Admit

Admit ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[Old English amitten, Latin admittere, admissum; ad + mittere to send: compare French admettre, Old French admettre, Old French ametre. See Missile.]

1.
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.
2.
To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
3.
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.
4.
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.
5.
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.
Both Houses declared that they could admit of no treaty with the king. — Hume