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. →
n.
The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the power of readily and happily creating and recalling such objects for the purpose of amusement, wit, or embellishment; imagination. →
n.
A familiar appellation of civility, equivalent to "My friend", "Good sir", "Mister;" -- sometimes used ironically. →
superl.
Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. →
v. t.
To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law. →