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admission|ædˈmɪʃən|
[ad. L. admissiōn-em, n. of action f. admiss- ppl. stem of admittĕre: see admit. Cf. Fr. admission, late, not in Cotgr. 1632.]
The action of admitting to some position, standing, or privileges; distinguished from admittance the literal action of letting in to a place.
1. a. The action of admitting to a place and its privileges, into a society or company of men, or class of things. Attributed also to the person admitted; thus = the fact of being admitted, access.
1622Bacon Henry VII (J.) There was also enacted that charitable law, for the admission of poor suitors without fee. 1630Naunton Fragm. Reg. (1870) 17 Charged by her expresse command to look precisely to all admissions into the Privy-Chamber. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 14 Baptizing is the Act, or Sign of their solemn admission. 1790Paley Hor. Paul. i. 6 They have never found admission into any catalogue of apostolical writings. 1828Landor Imag. Conv. (1846) 218 Elegance in prose composition is mainly this: a just admission of topics and of words. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. xvii. (1874) I. 188 They have free admission of the light of Heaven.
b. attrib., as admission fee, admission money, admission ticket.
1667Sprat Hist. R. Soc. 77 (T.) Some small admission-money and weekly contributions amongst themselves. 1779Mirror 12 June, I shall..present you with a dozen admission tickets. 1825Morning Chron. 2 June 3/2 To give him a general passport to the Theatre, without paying any admission money. 1829H. Foote Compan. Theatres 32 The lowering of the admission-money to the boxes. 1842Knickerbocker XX. 498 Certain persons..being stationed at the gates to exact..admission fees. 1888Gunter Mr. Potter of Texas xx, No one demands an admission fee.
c. ellipt. for admission fee, ticket.
1792Observer 4 Mar. 4/2 A mere admission for thirteen years sold the other day for fifty-eight guineas. 1802G. F. Cooke in W. Dunlap Mem. G. F. Cooke (1813) I. 216 Dispatched a note containing an admission for two on Monday evening to Covent-Garden theatre. 1833I. F. Aldridge Let. in N. & Q. (1872) 4th ser. X. 211/1, I enclose an admission for the printers, and one for yourself.
2. Reception or acceptance into an office or position; appointment, institution.
1494Fabyan vi. cxcvi. 200 After y⊇ deth of Edgare, stryfe arose amonges the lordes for admyssion of theyr kyng. 1588Fraunce Lawiers Logic Ded. ¶ 4 b, Having once knowen the price of an admission, Salting, and Matriculation, with the intertayning of Freshmenne in the Rhetorike schooles. c1680Beveridge Serm. (1729) I. 17, This formal admission of St. Matthias into the number of the apostles. 1726Ayliffe Parergon 39, Admission is when the Patron presents a Clerk to a Church that is vacant, and the Bishop upon Examination admits and allows of such Clerk to be fitly qualify'd. 1818Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life II. xi. 45 Poor Miss Phœbe was in that state which is of all others most favourable to the admission of a new lover—she had just lost an old one.
3. a. The admitting (of anything) as proper, valid, or true; acknowledging, allowing, or conceding.
1538Starkey England 128 You are veray esy in the admyssyon of thes fautys in the spiritualty. 1661Bramhall Just Vind. ii. 15 In admission of the same discipline, and subjection to the same supream Ecclesiastical authority. 1794Sullivan View of Nat. II. The admission of supernatural truths, is much less an active consent, than a cold and passive acquiescence. 1807Marshall Constit. Opin. (1839) 45 To the admission of this testimony great and serious objections have been made.
b. Law and gen. A concession, an acknowledgement.
1808Peake Evidence 17 His wife's admission that she had agreed to pay 4s. a week was allowed to be given in evidence. 1846Mill Logic ii. iii. §2 (1868) 205 To press the consequences of an admission into which a person has been entrapped. 1868Helps Realmah xv. (1876) 410 I decline..to make more admissions than I can help. 1876J. F. Stephens Law of Evid. xv. An admission is a statement, oral or written, suggesting any inference as unfavourable to the conclusion contended for by the person by whom or on whose behalf the statement is made.
¶ Admision c 1450 in tr. Higden Rolls Ser. I. 105 is a misprint for a diuision (Higd. limitem).
Add:[1.] d. An instance of being admitted, esp. to an educational or medical institution. Now freq. attrib. (usu. in pl.), esp. in admissions tutor.
a1635R. Naunton Fragmenta Regalia (1641) 5 Charged by her expresse command, to look precisely to all admissions into the Privy-Chamber. 1882Admissions Coll. St. John, Cambr. I. p. iii, For earlier admissions recourse must be had to university matriculations..and..to some scattered admissions belonging to the reign of Elizabeth. Ibid. p. ix, The facts recorded in the admissions seem to rest on oral testimony, rather than on written documents. 1891Cambr. Univ. Cal. 22 A fee of {pstlg}2 2s. is paid to the Common Chest by every student on each admission to a Special Examination. 1942Ann. Internal Med. XVI. 655 Many cases have repeated hospital admissions and form a long line of ‘follow-ups’ in the out-patient department. 1965Listener 18 Feb. 278/1 Nowadays colleges in the United States send out their admissions counsellors to the high schools and private secondary schools. 1966Ibid. 24 Nov. 767/2 That ‘spark of originality’ for which the university admissions tutor is looking. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 30 Oct. 1/1 Such administrators as Richard W. Haines, director of admissions at Lafayette College in Easton, Pa. 1988Oxford Today Michaelmas 46/3 There seemed no clear call for a further review of our admissions policies at this stage.
e. A person admitted to a medical or educational institution.
1961Lancet 29 July 238/2 This would explain why our present admissions are more severely ill than the earlier group. 1982Financial Times 12 Oct. 23/4 We are making every effort to encourage patients to share at reduced rates. Approximately 90 per cent of our admissions refuse point blank. 1989Guardian 25 July 30/1 Figures are hard to come by. UCCA provides some clues, analysing candidates and admissions by social class. |