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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.

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To lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.

To use or apply previously. If venesection and a cathartic be premised.

To state antecedent propositions.

prem’is. A first or antecedent proposition. Hence,