ADMIT', L. admitto, from ad and mitto, to send.
1. To suffer to enter to grant entrance whether into a place, or an office, or into the mind, or consideration as to admit a student into college to admit a serious thought into the mind.
2. To give right of entrance as, a ticket admits one into a play house.
3. To allow to receive as true as, the argument or fact is admitted.
4. To permit, grant or allow, or to be capable of as, the words do not admit of such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or omitted.
The King James Bible has stood its ground for nearly 400 years. However, during that time the English language has changed, and with it the meanings of some words it used. Here are more than 6,500 words whose definitions have changed since 1611.Wikipedia
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