Get Affordable VMs - excellent virtual server hosting


browse words by letter
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z

premisedmore about premised

premised


  1  definition  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Premise  \Pre*mise"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Premised};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Premising}.]  [From  L.  praemissus  p.  p.,  or  E. 
  premise,  n.  See  {Premise},  n.] 
  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  --Shak. 
 
  If  venesection  and  a  cathartic  be  premised.  --E. 
  Darwin. 
 
  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. 
  --Addison. 




more about premised