meaning of premise
1. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
2. Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
3. Matters previously stated or set forth; esp. , that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
4. A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on anothers premises.
5. To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
6. To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings.
7. To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.
8. a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn; "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to
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