general, signifies either the act of granting or yielding any thing, 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 the nuptials be disclaims, I urge no more; "Let him pursue the promis'd Latian shore. "A short delay is all I ask him now; "A pause of grief, an interval from wo."