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Premise   /prˈɛmɪs/   Listen
noun
Premise  n.  (pl. premises)  (Written also, less properly, premiss)  
1.
A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. "The premises observed, Thy will by my performance shall be served."
2.
(Logic) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn. Note: "All sinners deserve punishment: A B is a sinner." These propositions, which are the premises, being true or admitted, the conclusion follows, that A B deserves punishment. "While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion."
3.
pl. (Law) Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., 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.
pl. A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.


verb
Premise  v. t.  (past & past part. premised; pres. part. premising)  
1.
To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously. (Obs.) "The premised flames of the last day." "If venesection and a cathartic be premised."
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; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings. "I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task."


Premise  v. i.  To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.





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"Premise" Quotes from Famous Books



... call a big job. However, faith will move mountains, and the socialists certainly had faith. Their purpose was far reaching, to be sure, but, after all, it rested on a very simple basis. Reduced to a syllogism it might be stated as follows: Major premise: Every human being desires happiness. Minor premise: Socialism provides for the happiness of every human being. Conclusion: Demonstrate this truth and every human being will become ...
— My Friends at Brook Farm • John Van Der Zee Sears
... different premise and saw a deeper thing. The world might exist for her enjoyment, but it eluded her understanding. And that was beginning to ...
— The Visioning • Susan Glaspell
... observations upon singular words, may amuse some of your readers. I should, however, premise that as regards myself, the greater part are ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 14, - Issue 401, November 28, 1829 • Various
... may be glad to go with us through some of the plates and have an account of these differences. We must premise that the first state of the plates may be considered "proofs before letters"—the descriptive titles being only found in ...
— Pickwickian Manners and Customs • Percy Fitzgerald
... research to phenomena in their orders of resemblance, co-existence and succession. But to call the inquiry into phenomena positive, in the sense that it alone deals with reality, to imply that the inquiry into causes deals with that which has no reality, is to beg the question. This is not a premise with which he may set out in the ...
— Edward Caldwell Moore - Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant • Edward Moore


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