On 8/24/10 7:08 PM, Larry wrote:
YukonBound wrote:
admittance test
Don't you mean "admission test" or is that a Canadian term?


No, ****brain, he means admittance:


admittance

(ædˈmɪtəns)

[f. admit + -ance, cf. remittance; after Fr. and Eng. analogies in
assistance, attendance, etc. The analogical formation on L. admittens
would be admittence.]

The action of admitting, now confined to the literal sense of giving
entrance, the fig. ideas connected with admit being expressed by admission.

1.1 The action of admitting, letting in, or giving entrance; permission
to enter. Usually attributed to the person admitted: ‘our admittance (by
the porter) into the grounds’ rather than ‘the porter's admittance of
us’; thus = the fact of being admitted, entrance given or allowed. a.1.a
lit. into a place.

1593 Thynne Let. in Animadv. (1865) 97 Whene your Lordship will
vouchsafe mee admyttance to your presence. 1611 Shakes. Cymb. ii.
iii. 73 'Tis Gold Which buyes admittance. 1635 Naunton Fragm. Reg. in
Phenix (1708) I. 208 He came up per ardua‥not pulled up by Chance, or by
any gentle admittance of Fortune. a 1704 Locke (J.) There are some
ideas which have admittance only through one sense. 1731 Arbuthnot On
Aliments (J.) As to the admittance of the weighty elastic parts of the
air into the blood. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. (1872) I. vii. ix. 238 He
gets admittance through the locked and padlocked grates. Mod. ‘No
admittance except on business.’