premising

Verb

premise (third-person singular simple present premises, present participle premising, simple past and past participle premised)

1. To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
2. To make a premise.
3. To set forth beforehand, 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.1712 February 12 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, February 2, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 291; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The...
4. To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
   • the premised flames of the last day1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...

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