Crossword-Solution: PREMISE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Premise | n. | A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. |
| Premise | n. | Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn. |
| Premise | n. | 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. |
| Premise | n. | A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises. |
| Premise | n. | To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously. |
| Premise | n. | 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. |
| Premise | v. i. | To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PREMISE | anagram | EMPIRES, EMPRISE, PREMIES, SIEMPRE, SPIREME |
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Sentences with PREMISE (5)
Let me premise a word about myself? I neither did the deed nor saw it done, Nor were it just that I should come to harm.
Some years later, ESR (disappointed by Hastings and Tarr's failure to exploit a great premise more thoroughly) posted a 3-times-longer complete rewrite called "UNIX WARS"; the two are often confused.
BESSER responded that the assembled group could be viewed as a starting point, whose initial operating premise could be helping to move in this direction and defining how LC could do so, for example, in areas of standardization or distribution of responsibility.
The premise is that computers radiate information that our enemies can pick up with sophisticated equipment.
Bellegarde did not in the least cause him to modify his needful premise that all Frenchmen are of a frothy and imponderable substance; he simply reminded him that light materials may be beaten up into a most agreeable compound.
Quotes with PREMISE (3)
The necessity of reform mustn’t be allowed to become a form of blackmail serving to limit, reduce, or halt the exercise of criticism. Under no circumstances should one pay attention to those who tell one: “Don’t criticize, since you’re not capable of carrying out a reform.” That’s ministerial cabinet talk. Critique doesn’t have to be the premise of a deduction that concludes, “this, then, is what needs to be done.” It should be an instrument for those for who fight, those who…
There's one other thing I'd like to remind you of, my dear. There've been many times when you've sworn to me that after all that life has dealt you, it was no longer possible for you to believe in anything. I replied that both life and my studies had led me to the same conclusion. I asked you, 'What is a person permitted, once he's realized that truth is unattainable and consequently doesn't exist for him?' Do you remember your answer?""I do, ibn Sabbah. I said something like…
Their grumpiness is often the grumpiness of perfectionists who hold that anything less than total victory is failure, a premise that makes it easy to give up at the start or to disparage the victories that are possible. This is Earth. It will never be heaven. There will always be cruelty, always be violence, always be de- struction.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Onion, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 32 times in crossword archives (1944–2021).