Index of English words, starting with "ad"

(1) - Admissibility (n.) The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.

(1) - Admissible (a.) Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible.

(1) - Admission (n.) 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.
(2) - Admission (n.) A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.
(3) - Admission (n.) 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.
(4) - Admission (n.) The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something /serted; acknowledgment; concession.
(5) - Admission (n.) Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
(6) - Admission (n.) The act or practice of admitting.

(1) - Admissive (a.) Implying an admission; tending to admit.

(1) - Admit (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.
(2) - Admit (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.
(3) - Admit (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.
(4) - Admit (v. t.) To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
(5) - Admit (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.