admitted

3 definitions found

admitted - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Admit \Ad*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Admitted; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Admitting.] [OE. amitten, L. admittere, admissum; ad +
     mittere to send: cf. F. admettre, OF. admettre, OF. 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.
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     2. To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into
        a playhouse.
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     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.
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     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.
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     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.
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              Both Houses declared that they could admit of no
              treaty with the king.                 --Hume.
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  Admitted \Ad*mit"ted\, a.
     Received as true or valid; acknowledged.

admitted - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "admitted":
     accepted, acclaimed, acknowledged, admired, advocated, affirmed,
     allowed, applauded, approved, authenticated, avowed, backed,
     being done, certified, comme il faut, conceded, confessed,
     confirmed, conformable, conventional, correct, countersigned,
     cried up, customary, de rigueur, decent, decorous, endorsed,
     established, favored, favorite, fixed, folk, formal, granted,
     hallowed, handed down, heroic, highly touted, hoary, immemorial,
     in good odor, inveterate, legendary, long-established,
     long-standing, meet, mythological, notarized, of long standing,
     of the folk, on sufferance, oral, orthodox, permitted, popular,
     prescriptive, professed, proper, ratified, received, recognized,
     recommended, right, rooted, sealed, seemly, signed, stamped,
     supported, sworn and affirmed, sworn to, time-honored, tolerated,
     traditional, tried and true, true-blue, understood, underwritten,
     unforbidden, unprohibited, unwritten, validated, venerable,
     warranted, well-thought-of, worshipful