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admittance|ædˈmɪtəns|
[f. admit + -ance, cf. remittance; after Fr. and Eng. analogies in assistance, attendance, etc. The analogical formation on L. admittens would be admittence.]
The action of admitting, now confined to the literal sense of giving entrance, the fig. ideas connected with admit being expressed by admission.
1. The action of admitting, letting in, or giving entrance; permission to enter. Usually attributed to the person admitted: ‘our admittance (by the porter) into the grounds’ rather than ‘the porter's admittance of us’; thus = the fact of being admitted, entrance given or allowed.
a. lit. into a place.
1593Thynne Let. in Animadv. (1865) 97 Whene your Lordship will vouchsafe mee admyttance to your presence. 1611Shakes. Cymb. ii. iii. 73 'Tis Gold Which buyes admittance. 1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. in Phenix (1708) I. 208 He came up per ardua..not pulled up by Chance, or by any gentle admittance of Fortune. a1704Locke (J.) There are some ideas which have admittance only through one sense. 1731Arbuthnot On Aliments (J.) As to the admittance of the weighty elastic parts of the air into the blood. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1872) I. vii. ix. 238 He gets admittance through the locked and padlocked grates. Mod. ‘No admittance except on business.’
b. fig. into an office, position (arch.), or society (obs.) Mostly replaced by admission.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. (1617) 124 Therefore a solemne admittance [to office in the Church] is of such necessitie, that without it there can be no Church-Politie. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. xxxix. (1632) 400 Without the admittance of any Secondary or Viceroy to rule there vnder him. 1649Selden Laws of Eng. ii. xxxv. (1739) 160 The Pope had no admittance unto his ancient Claim. 1743J. Morris Serm. viii. 230 The condition of our admittance into his favor.
c. spec. in Law, into a copyhold estate. The act by which the copyholder is put in actual and legally recognized possession.
1741T. Robinson Gavelkind vi. 98 Who dies before Admittance. 1768Blackstone Comm. II. 370 Admittance is the last stage, or perfection, of copyhold assurances. 1809Tomlins Law Dict. s.v. Copyhold, The consent of the lord to the surrender shall be adjudged a good admittance. If the steward accept a fine of a copyholder, it amounts to an admittance. But delivering a copy is no admittance.
†2. Hence, The habit or faculty of being admitted; admissibility. Obs. rare.
1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. ii. 235 You are a gentleman of excellent breeding, admirable discourse, of great admittance.
†3. The action of admitting as valid or satisfactory; acceptance, sanction. Obs.
1598Shakes. Merry W. iii. iii. 61 The Tyre-valiant, or any Tire of Venetian admittance. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 424 All other coynes inhaunced aboue the Par of Exchanges heretofore calculated amongst Merchants, and especially with the admittance of Princes.
†4. The action of admitting the truth (of a tenet), either from conviction or for argument's sake. Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (1869) 235 This figure is much vsed by our English pleaders..which they call to confesse and auoid..I call it the figure of admittance. 1635J. Swan Spec. Mundi v. §2 (1643) 165 We fall into other absurdities upon the admittance of this tenet.
5. Electr. The reciprocal of impedance, measured in mhos.
1887O. Heaviside in Phil. Mag. XXIV. 482 It is naturally suggested to call J the ‘admittance’ of the combination. But it is not to be anticipated that this will meet with so favourable a reception as impedance, which term is now considerably used. 1931B.B.C. Year-Bk. 435/1 Admittance, the admittance of a circuit is the reciprocal of its impedance or apparent resistance. 1949Electronic Engin. Apr. 145 A method is presented for finding the input admittance of an amplifier. |