Admit : v.tr. (word from Latin admittere, put).
The verb “to admit” has several meanings:
1. Accept de to receive (someone) (welcome, accredit).
admit someone to backgammon.
Be admitted to a exam.
– Quote from the French writer Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1804-1869): “Until he had been admitted to the Academy”.
Dogs are not allowed.
Admit someone to sit, him recognize le right (to allow).
allowed to do to be worth his pension rights.
2. Consider as acceptable by themind (by a judgment de reality or valeur).
“He will admit or reject certain facts” (Valéry).
It's a thing commonly admitted.
– Quote from the French novelist, biographer, storyteller and essayist André Maurois (1885-1967): “All primitive peoples have admitted that the madman is inhabited by a demon”.
With the indicative: I admit that I was wrong (grant, recognize).
Accept simply hypothesis that one retains provisionally (to suppose).
Admit something like real, possible.
With the subjunctive: By admitting that it is something true.
Admit that: assuming that.
Suppose he has reason.
Admit! (I want carefully).
3. Especially in negative sentence: Accept, allow.
He does not admit contradiction (tolerate).
With the subjunctive: I do not admit that he come without warning.
subject matter: To allow, allow (suffer).
Of a ton which admitted no reply.
This rule does not admit any exception (include).
4. Declare admissible in Justice.
The board allowed the appeal.
5. Let enter.
The gases are admitted into the cylinder.
– Quotation of the French writer Théophile Gautier (1811-1872): “Inextricable alleys which cannot admit cars”.
Opposites of admitting: excluding, rejecting.