| premise | |
| 1. n. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. | |
| 2. n. (logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced. | |
| 3. n. (usually in the legal) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing grante | |
| 4. n. (usually in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts. (This meaning arose from meaning #3, by owners of land and/or buildings finding the word in their title deeds and wrongly g | |
| trespass on another’s premises | |
| 5. n. (authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story. | |
| 6. v. To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument. | |
| 7. v. To make a premise. | |
| 8. v. To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows. | |
| 9. v. To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously. | |
