Adolescence

1. n. The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood; youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generally considered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one. Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.

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Adolescency

1. n. The quality of being adolescent; youthfulness.

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Adolescent

1. n. A youth.
2. a. Growing; advancing from childhood to maturity.

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Admissible

1. a. Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible.

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Admission

1. n. Declaration of the bishop that he approves of the presentee as a fit person to serve the cure of the church to which he is presented.
2. n. The act or practice of admitting.
3. n. Power or permission to enter; admittance; entrance; access; power to approach.
4. n. The granting of an argument or position not fully proved; the act of acknowledging something /serted; acknowledgment; concession.
5. n. Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.
6. n. A fact, point, or statement admitted; as, admission made out of court are received in evidence.

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Admissive

1. a. Implying an admission; tending to admit.

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Admissory

1. a. Pertaining to admission.

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Admitted

1. imp. & p. p. of Admit

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Admitting

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Admit

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Admit

1. v. t. To be capable of; to permit; as, the words do not admit such a construction. In this sense, of may be used after the verb, or may be omitted.
2. v. t. To suffer to enter; to grant entrance, whether into a place, or into the mind, or consideration; to receive; to take; as, they were into his house; to admit a serious thought into the mind; to admit evidence in the trial of a cause.
3. v. t. To give a right of entrance; as, a ticket admits one into a playhouse.
4. v. t. To allow (one) to enter on an office or to enjoy a privilege; to recognize as qualified for a franchise; as, to admit an attorney to practice law; the prisoner was admitted to bail.
5. v. t. To concede as true; to acknowledge or assent to, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

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