Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Premised"

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.


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