præmise

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Noun

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præmise (plural præmises)

  1. Archaic spelling of premise.
    • 2008 March 28, "radjaerna" (username), Should women have equal rights with men?, in the RichardDawkins.net Forum:
      The axioms were commonly shared amongst all, which would yield more hard truth and false values to the rights of women, and indeed a ‘should’, but only from the præmise of the axioms, which are still there by virtue of man.

Verb

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præmise (third-person singular simple present præmises, present participle præmising, simple past and past participle præmised)

  1. Archaic spelling of premise.
    • 1564–1593, a scrap of a work reprinted in 1910 by Tucker Brooke in The Works of Christopher Marlowe, page 359:
      My dutie to your honor præmised, &c.
    • c. 1625, a scrap of a work reprinted in 1906 by Samuel Purchas in Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others (J. MacLehose and Sons), page 451:
      [] præmising somthing[sic] as a Preface of the great deliverances which God vouchsafed that Virgin Queen.
    • 1686, Rev. Charles Morton of Newington Green, “Preface”, in Compendium Physicae; republished as Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, volume 33, The Society, 1940, page 5:
      This I thought good to præmise that you should not be dishartned when you meat with diversities of oppinions in the folloing discourse: and because the former Phylosophers had their Method more Systematical, than the latter; I have therefore Chosen their method, and noted the Others Matter by the Way in those places where I observe a discrepance.

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