præmise

English

Alternative forms

• præmiss (archaic)
• premiss

Noun

præmise (plural præmises)

1. (archaic or pedantic) Alternative spelling of premise.
   • 2008: “radjaerna”, RichardDawkins.net Forum: Should women have equal rights with men?, forum post № 775,752 on Friday the 28^th of March at 11 o’clock p.m.

     The axioms were commonly shared amongst all, which would yield more hard truth and false values to the rights of women, and indeed a ‘should’, but only from the præmise of the axioms, which are still there by virtue of man.

Verb

præmise (third-person singular simple present *præmises or *præmiseth, present participle præmising, simple past and past participle præmised)

1. Archaic spelling of premise.
   • 1564–1593: original text’s details unknown; reprinted in:
   • 1910: Tucker Brooke, The Works of Christopher Marlowe, page 359 (The Clarendon Press)

     My dutie to your honor præmised, &c.

   • 1625?: original text’s details unknown; reprinted in:
   • 1906: Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others, page 451 (J. MacLehose and Sons)

     […] præmising somthing as a Preface of the great deliverances which God vouchsafed that Virgin Queen.

   • 1686: Rev. Charles Morton of Newington Green, Compendium Physicae, preface; reprinted in:
   • 1940: Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, volume 33, page 5 (The Society)

     This I thought good to præmise that you should not be dishartned when you meat with diversities of oppinions in the folloing discourse: and because the former Phylosophers had their Method more Systematical, than the latter; I have therefore Chosen their method, and noted the Others Matter by the Way in those places where I observe a discrepance.