Admission1. (n.) The act or practice of admitting.
2. (n.) Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
3. (n.) The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something asserted; acknowledgment; concession.
4. (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.
5. (n.) A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.
6. (n.) Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presented as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
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