Ad*mit"tance (&?;), n. 1.
The act of admitting.
2. Permission to enter; the power or right of
entrance; also, actual entrance; reception.
To gain admittance into the house.
South.
He desires admittance to the king.
Dryden.
To give admittance to a thought of fear.
Shak.
3. Concession; admission; allowance; as, the
admittance of an argument. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
4. Admissibility. [Obs.] Shak.
5. (Eng. Law) The act of giving possession
of a copyhold estate. Bouvier.
Syn. -- Admission; access; entrance; initiation. --
Admittance, Admission. These words are, to some extent, in a
state of transition and change. Admittance is now chiefly confined
to its primary sense of access into some locality or building. Thus we see
on the doors of factories, shops, etc. "No admittance." Its
secondary or moral sense, as "admittance to the church," is almost
entirely laid aside. Admission has taken to itself the secondary or
figurative senses; as, admission to the rights of citizenship;
admission to the church; the admissions made by one of the
parties in a dispute. And even when used in its primary sense, it is not
identical with admittance. Thus, we speak of admission into a
country, territory, and other larger localities, etc., where
admittance could not be used. So, when we speak of admission
to a concert or other public assembly, the meaning is not perhaps exactly
that of admittance, viz., access within the walls of the building,
but rather a reception into the audience, or access to the performances.
But the lines of distinction on this subject are one definitely drawn.
Ad*mit"tance, n. (Elec.) The
reciprocal of impedance.
Ad*mit"tance, n. (Elec.) The
reciprocal of impedance.
