premise
Forms
- Plural
- premises
- present (v1)
- premise
- past (v2)
- premised
- past participle (v3)
- premised
- present participle
- premising
- 3rd person singular
- premises
Definitions
1.A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
2.Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
- While the premises stand firm, 'tis impossible to shake the conclusion.
3.Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
4.A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.
- On the premises is a beautiful lawn, well stocked with flowering shrubs; hard and soft water.
1.To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
2.To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
- I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task.
- Having premised thus much, we will now detain those who like our bill of fare no longer from their diet, and shall proceed directly to serve up the first course of our history for their entertainment.
3.To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
4.To make a premise.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4348
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle English premise, premisse, from Old French premisse, from Medieval Latin premissa (“set before”) (premissa propositio (“the proposition set before”)), feminine past participle of Latin praemittere (“to send or put before”), from prae- (“before”) + mittere (“to send”).