a.; also 5–7 admittible. [f. prec. + -ABLE. The earlier admittible follows the analogy of credible, etc., repr. L. forms in -ibilis; but admittibilis is not found, and the late L. was admissibilis. See ADMISSIBLE and -BLE.] Formerly = ADMISSIBLE, but now limited more closely to the literal sense of ADMIT: Capable of being admitted to a place or as a fact.
a. 1420. Occleve, De Reg. Princ., 3120. A man to slee by lawe it is lisible, That slaughter afore God is admyttible.
c. 1555. Harpsfield, Divorce Hen. VIII. (1878), 75. A dispensation is sooner admittable in affinity than in consanguinity.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 152. This appellation is not admittible in propriety of speech. Ibid., 274. A conceit … not admittable in Philosophy, much lesse in Divinity.
1726. Ayliffe, Parergon, 40. For as the Law then stood, a Deacon was admittable.
