| Premise: English to English |
| Premise (n.) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises. |
| 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.) 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. |