premise

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[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• præmise (archaic or pedantic), præmiss (archaic), premiss

[edit] Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French premisse, from Mediaeval Latin premissa (“‘set before’”) (premissa propositio, the proposition) set before"}, feminine past participle of Latin premittere (“‘to send or put before’”), from pre- (“‘before’”) + mittere (“‘to send’”)

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: prĕ'mĭs, IPA: /ˈprɛmɪs/, SAMPA: /"prEmIs/

[edit] Noun

premise (plural premises)

1. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
2. (logic) Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
3. (usually plural, 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. (usually plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts (in this sense, used most often in the plural form).

   trespass on another’s premises

[edit] Related terms

• conclusion

[edit] Translations

[edit] Derived terms

• major premise
• minor premise

[edit] Verb

to premise (third-person singular simple present premises, present participle premising, simple past and past participle premised)

1. To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument
2. To make a premise

[edit] References

• premise in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

[edit] Anagrams

• Anagrams of eeimprs
• empires
• emprise
• epimers
• premies

[edit] Italian

[edit] Verb

premise

1. Third-person singular past historic of premettere.