To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion.
To not bar or obstruct.
To render physically possible.
To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have.
To grant license to; to permit; to consent to.
To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct.
To take into account by making an allowance.
To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request).
To preach, to berate, to scold.
To teach (somebody) by giving a speech on a given topic.
a class that primarily consists of a (weekly or other regularly held) lecture (as in sense 1)
A berating or scolding.
A spoken lesson or exposition, usually delivered to a group.