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s/ Present participle premising, premissing; past tense and past participle premised, premissed. Forms: lME- premise, 15 premyse, 15 premysse, 15 premysse (past participle), 16 praemise, 16 premize. [< PREMISE n.]
1. a. trans. To state, set forth, or mention before something else; to say or write by way of introduction to a subject or topic. Also with clause as object.
c1450 in H. Anstey
Epistolae Academicae Oxon. (1898) I. 285 We pray you..
at ye woll..to do yor labyr and diligence..for
e furthrance and promocion off us to
e said bokes & money, yeven unto us as hyt is premised.
a1530 W. B
ONDE Pylgrimage of Perfection (1531)
III. f. Clxxxxv, Whan almyghty god forbade the iewes to make..ydolles, he premysed & put before these wordes, sayenge. Thou shalt haue no god but me.
?a1560 L. DIGGES Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571)
I. vi. sig. C iij, I thinke it not amisse..to premise certaine Theoremes.
1606 P. HOLLAND tr. Suetonius
Hist. Twelve Caesars To Rdrs., With some few advertisments præmised.
1669 W. SIMPSON Hydrol. Chymica 34 What we have already said to that point being premiz'd.
1709 G. BERKELEY Ess. New Theory of Vision §33. 33 In order to a more full Explication of this Point,..it will be necessary to premise some few Things.
1781 EARL OF MALMESBURY Diaries & Corr. I. 453, I can venture to premise that he will..be deprived of every possible means of doing harm.
a1845 S. SMITH Elem. Sketches Moral Philos. (1849) xxiv. 367 Having premised these observations, I proceed to consider [etc.].
1860 C. M. YONGE Cameos lxi, in
Monthly Packet Dec. 584 He finally gave way, and accepted the commission, premising that he would only submit to it for twelve months.
1926 J. S. HUXLEY Ess. Biologist (ed. 3) VII. 265 We shall retain it [
sc. the word ‘God’] in default of another, premissing that the word..can be defined and applied in many ways.
1936 A. W. CLAPHAM Romanesque Archit. i. 3 It may be premised..that the more Romanized the country the harder was the struggle for new ideas of form and decoration to propagate themselves.
1991 Social Forces 69 1250 He [
sc. Comte] premised that his science took the place of religion as a basis for moral certainty.
b. trans. To prefix (words, comments, etc.) to a text or a speech. Obs.
1626 R. HARRIS Hezekiah's Recov. 2 Neither is there anie necessitie of premising petitions to each particular thanksgiving.
1681 R. BOYLE Let. 8 Apr. in
Wks. (1772) I. p. clxxiii, The preface that the Jansenists have premised to their translation of the new testament
1707 H. SLOANE Voy. Islands I. Pref., An Introduction,..which seemed necessary to be premised to the History itself.
1828 E. B. PUSEY Hist. Enq. I. 36 Premising to each article a definition.
c. trans. Orig. Logic. To state (something) in the premises of a deductive argument in order to support a conclusion; to take as a premise. Also intr.: to posit a premise.
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.)
1 57 He premises in General his thought touching the working of Great Optick-Glasses.
1684 T. BURNET Theory of Earth I. iv. 48 The Apostle's discourse here was an argumentation..'tis an answer upon a ground taken, he premiseth and then infers.
1864 F. C. BOWEN Treat. Logic vii. 182 For if only
some is premised, we cannot conclude
all.
1879 Mind 4 102 Thought, he premises, is executed by the irritation of doubt, and ceases when belief is attained.
1933 Mind 42 127 Premising that ‘no two minds can mean quite the same thing by the same term’, the writer traces the development of ‘reason’ in philosophic history.
1994 Philos. & Phenomenol. Res. 54 580 Now for the second step. Having premised that Exemplification as holding between this apple and Redness must be a supervenient relation, we ask: on what nonrelational features of the apple and Redness does it supervene?
d. trans. To imply beforehand; to presuppose. rare.
a1706 J. EVELYN Hist. Relig. (1850) I. ii. 165 The very notion of the Soul's regeneration premising a generation.
1909 Man 9 74 Dr. Meyer briefly refers to the existence of Papuan languages as premising the existence of a Papuan race.
e. trans. orig. U.S. To base (an argument, theory, or undertaking) on or upon an assumption, principle, etc. Usu. in pass. Cf. PREMISE n. 1.
1881 N.Y. Times 20 Aug. 4/3 A line having 4,000-ton steamers might make a fair return on the money invested in them... This..is premised on the existence of an abundance of freight awaiting transportation.
1914 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 8 92 Premising the conclusion upon this statement of the case, it is seen that [etc.].
1940 Monnessen (
Pa.
)
Daily Independent 15 Aug. 4/1 Nearly all of our actions,..including the proposal to raise an Army by conscription, have been premised upon a British defeat.
1973 Globe & Mail (
Toronto
)
1 Aug. 6/3 The thrust of your editorial By Provincial Initiative (July 27) is premised on the discredited ‘compact theory’ that Confederation is an agreement between the provinces.
1988 Philos. East & West 38 263 He premised his own metaphysics on substance..with its attributes to establish a most powerul influence on man's view of nature in the West.
2001 H. GILBERT Postcolonial Plays 2/1 His view is premised on the assumption that those interpreting cultural artefacts..will not sufficiently attend to their particularised locations.
2. trans. To make, do, or perform beforehand; (Surg. and Med.) to perform (a procedure), place (a device), or administer (a remedy) as the beginning of a course of treatment. Obs.
1542 N. UDALL in tr. Erasmus
Apophthegmes f. 142, When Antonie (the signe of the holy crosse premised) had in the name of god demaunded.
1635 E. PAGITT Christianographie (1636)
I. iii. 122 This solemne prayer being ended,..and the Lords prayer premised, all communicate
1651 R. WITTIE tr. J. Primrose
Pop. Errors III. 171 They forbid to use them,..before that purging be premised.
1738 Philos. Trans. 1735-6 (Royal Soc)
39 337 The Limb was immediately cut off.., having first premised a Ligature about the Flesh surrounding the Vessels.
1787 J. COLLINS in
Med. Communications 2 367 After premising a few drops of the antimonial wine,..I had recourse to the bark.
1836 J. M. GULLY tr. F. Magendie
Formulary (ed. 2) 209 In the first case, of ulcers, I premised a seton in the arm.
3. trans.
a. To send on ahead or in advance. Obs. rare.
?c1550 tr. P. Vergil
Three Bks. Eng. Hist. (1844)
XXIII. 104 The king..premised certaine horsmen to besett all the same beforehand.
1616 J. BULLOKAR Eng. Expositor,
Premise, to send before, to speake before.
b. To send or bring before the expected time Obs. rare.
a1616 [implied in PREMISED adj. 2].
4. trans. and intr. To preface or introduce (something) with or by something else.
a1745 SWIFT Enq. Behaviour Queen's last Ministry in
Wks. (1941) VIII. 164, I must premise with three circumstances.
1823 T. CHALMERS Serm. I. 448 Let me premise this head of discourse by admitting that I know nothing more hateful than the crouching spirit of servility.
1847 T. MEDWIN Life Shelley I. 283, I shall premise it [
sc. the history] with a few observations.
1929 Econ. Jrnl. 39 265 As for the quantity theory itself, the discussion of it is premised with the statement that the quantity theory school ‘cast aside almost completely’ [etc.].
1997 Internat. & Compar. Law Jrnl. 46 353 The main body of the Memorandum outlines..the functions of the Secretariat. Premised with the warning that ‘it should not abrogate to itself executive functions’ [etc.].
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