a. [a. Fr. admissible, ad. late L. admissibilem, f. admiss- ppl. stem of admitt-ĕre: see ADMIT and -BLE.]
1. Worthy of being entertained as an idea or project; allowable.
1611. Cotgr., Admissible [Fr.]. admittable, admissible, fit to be admitted, received, allowed of.
1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., I. vi. 126. Suppose that this Supposition were admissible.
1753. Richardson, Grandison (1781), V. x. 58. He used to pay his duty to me, and ask blessing the moment he came in, if admissible (Is that a word, Harriet?).
1859. Mill, Liberty, 171. What amount of public control is admissible for the prevention of fraud by adulteration.
b. Law. Allowable as judicial proof.
1849. Best, Evidence (1870), 116. The parol evidence of a witness [as to the contents of a lost document] is admissible, though there is a copy of the document.
2. Capable or worthy of being admitted to an office or relation, or to the use of a place. (Differs from ADMITTABLE, as admission from admittance.)
1775. Ash, Admissible, worthy of being admitted.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., II. 14. They were admissible to political and military employment.
1852. McCulloch, Taxation (ed. 2), II. v. 215. The average Gazette price of muscovado sugar, admissible to the English markets.
1868. M. Pattison, Academ. Organ., § 5, 239. Let all who choose be admissible to our lectures.
