Crossword clues for admitted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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.
To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
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.
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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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.
Admitted \Ad*mit"ted\, a. Received as true or valid; acknowledged.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: admit)
WordNet
v. declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of; "He admitted his errors"; "She acknowledged that she might have forgotten" [syn: acknowledge] [ant: deny]
allow to enter; grant entry to; "We cannot admit non-members into our club" [syn: allow in, let in, intromit] [ant: reject]
allow participation in or the right to be part of; permit to exercise the rights, functions, and responsibilities of; "admit someone to the profession"; "She was admitted to the New Jersey Bar" [syn: let in, include] [ant: exclude]
admit into a group or community; "accept students for graduate study"; "We'll have to vote on whether or not to admit a new member" [syn: accept, take, take on]
afford possibility; "This problem admits of no solution"; "This short story allows of several different interpretations" [syn: allow]
give access or entrance to; "The French doors admit onto the yard"
have room for; hold without crowding; "This hotel can accommodate 250 guests"; "The theater admits 300 people"; "The auditorium can't hold more than 500 people" [syn: accommodate, hold]
serve as a means of entrance; "This ticket will admit one adult to the show"
See admit
Usage examples of "admitted".
If he was gravely suspected, and refused to appear when he was summoned to answer for his faith, and was therefore excommunicated and had endured that excommunication obstinately for a year, but becomes penitent, let him be admitted, and abjure all heresy, in the manner explained in the sixth method of pronouncing sentence.
I think this must be admitted, when we find that there are hardly any domestic races, either amongst animals or plants, which have not been ranked by some competent judges as mere varieties, and by other competent judges as the descendants of aboriginally distinct species.
He admitted that he had lived in Tulsa for more than ten years but still voted by absentee ballot in Madison County in every election, though he was no longer a legal resident there.
Her reaction had been stupid, she admitted as Acorn picked his way across a stream.
Again and again, in adjudicating the rights and duties of States admitted after 1789, the Supreme Court has referred to the condition of equality as if it were an inherent attribute of the Federal Union.
As two men in military attire were instantly admitted, I thought this a little hard upon a man who had travelled so far to see his admiralship, and, accordingly, hinted my indignation to Mr.
He was in constant fear lest Zorzi should say something which might betray the meetings at the house of the Agnus Dei, and had often regretted that he had not been put quietly out of the way, instead of being admitted to the society.
Contarini dismissed his gondola at the house of the Agnus Dei, and was admitted by the trusted servant who had once taken a message to Zorzi.
Wolde, Alec admitted to his eavesdropping and seemed relieved when Nysander merely smiled.
Its territory was vast, aye, but it was poor in arable land, as Una had admitted from the outset, the most of that and all of the best being centered in the valley guarded by her round tower.
YES, the truth was out, and Darden himself admitted it when he drew back with a snarl, as if to clamp his hands upon the box that contained the most valued items of the Argyle collection.
You admitted, on record, that the Auric woman influenced your mind and body.
The word of a decorated officer against the word of an agent known for being unable to get along with his fellows, and who recently admitted to being under the influence of the daughter of the man who leads the Auric Rights League.
Thus, shining in all her beauty, she admitted Avenant to her presence.
Obediali admitted with regreLike I A CAPITAL HOLIDAY 285 Young Brian cocked his head, awondering curiosity rounding his dark eyes.