general, signifies either the act of granting or yielding anything, or the thing itself which is so granted or yielded.

Rhetoric, a figure, whereby something is freely allowed, that yet might bear dispute, to obtain something that one would have granted to him, and which he thinks cannot fairly be denied, as in the following concession of Dido, in Virgil:

"Let him purifie the promis'd Latian thore. "A short delay is all I ask him now; "A pause of grief, an interval from wo."