PREMI'SE, v.t. s as z. [L. proemissus, proemitto, to send before.] 1. 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. I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task.2. To send before the time. [Not in use.]3. To lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.4. To use or apply previously. If venesection and a cathartic be premised.PREMI'SE, v.i. To state antecedent propositions.
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