ppl. a. [f. ADMIT + -ED.]

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  1.  Allowed to enter; taken in.

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1606.  Shaks., Ant. & Cl., V. ii. 140. ’Tis exactly valewed, Not petty things admitted.

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1661.  Dryden, Coron. Chas. II., 110. Beyond your court flows in the admitted tide.

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1815.  Moore, Parad. & Peri, 334. Upon whose bank admitted souls Their first sweet draught of glory take.

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  2.  Received into an office or relation, instituted.

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a. 1555.  Latimer, in Foxe, A. & M., III. 398. To inhibit a Preacher of the Kings admitted, is it not to disobey the King?

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1881.  Daily Tel., 25 Oct. (Advt.). Wanted … an admitted solicitor as Managing Clerk.

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  3.  Received as true or valid; received, accepted, acknowledged.

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1846.  Mill, Logic, I. iii. § 3 (1868), 54. But this is an admitted departure from correctness of language.

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1851.  H. Spencer, Soc. Stat., I. iii. § 1. We may therefore safely consider it as an admitted truth.

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