prem'is. A first or antecedent proposition.
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To state antecedent propositions.
1. s as z. [Latin proemissus, proemitto, to send before.]
2. To speak or write before, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.
3. I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task.
4. To send before the time. [Not in use.]
5. To lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.
6. To use or apply previously.
1. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
2. Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
3. 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. A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.
5. To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
6. 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.
To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.
1. In logic, the two first propositions of a syllogism, from which the inference or conclusion is drawn; as,
2. All sinners deserve punishment;
3. A B is a sinner.
4. These propositions, which are the premises being true or admitted, the conclusion follows, that A B deserves punishment.
5. Propositions antecedently supposed or proved.
6. While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion.
7. In law, land or other things mentioned in the preceding part of a deed.
Precedence Roget’s Thesaurus §62
N. precedence, coming before, the lead, le pas, superiority, importance, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precursor, priority, precession, anteposition, epacme, preference
V. precede, come before, come first, head, lead, take the lead, lead the way, lead the dance, be in the vanguard, introduce, usher in, have the pas, set the fashion, open the ball, take precedence, have precedence, have the start, place before, prefix, premise, prelude, preface
Adj. preceding, precedent, antecedent, anterior, prior, before, former, foregoing, beforementioned, abovementioned, aforementioned, aforesaid, said, precursory, precursive, prevenient, preliminary, prefatory, introductory, prelusive, prelusory, proemial, preparatory
Adv. before, in advance
Phr. seniores priores, prior tempore prior jure
Prediction Roget’s Thesaurus §511
N. prediction, announcement, program, programme, premonition, prognosis, prophecy, vaticination, mantology, prognostication, premonstration|, augury, auguration|, ariolation|, hariolation|, foreboding, aboding, bodement, abodement, omniation|, omniousness, auspices, forecast, omen, horoscope, nativity, sooth, soothsaying, fortune telling, crystal gazing, divination, necromancy, astrology, horoscopy, judicial astrology1, adytum, prefiguration, prefigurement, prototype, type, oracle
V. predict, prognosticate, prophesy, vaticinate, divine, foretell, soothsay, augurate, tell fortunes, cast a horoscope, cast a nativity, advise, forewarn, presage, augur, bode, abode, forebode, foretoken, betoken, prefigure, preshow, portend, foreshow, foreshadow, shadow forth, typify, pretypify, ominate, signify, point to, usher in, herald, premise, announce, lower, hold out expectation, raise expectation, excite expectation, excite hope, bid fair, promise, lead one to expect, be the precursor, extrapolate, project
Adj. predicting, predictive, prophetic, fatidic, fatidical, vaticinal, oracular, fatiloquent, haruspical, sibylline, weatherwise, ominous, portentous, augurous, augurial, augural, auspicial, auspicious, prescious, monitory, extispicious, premonitory, significant of, pregnant with, bit with the fate of
Phr. "coming events cast their shadows before", dicamus bona verba, "there buds the promise of celestial worth"
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