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premised
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Premise \Pre*mise"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Premised; p. pr. & vb. n. Premising.] [From L. praemissus, p. p., or E. premise, n. See Premise, n.]
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To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously. [Obs.]
The premised flames of the last day.
--Shak.If venesection and a cathartic be premised.
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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.
I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
Having a (specified) premise v
(en-past of: premise)
Usage examples of "premised".
Eventually, he'd ask me to lie actively, or to talk Robbie into some dubious stratagem, requests that would not be premised on my client's best interests but on the grand importance of Petros to the legal community, and on my friendship with Stan.
It may be premised that, as a general rule, all the species in the same genus sleep in nearly the same manner.
In adult behavior, virtually all we do, from mailing an envelope to making love, is premised upon certain spoken or unspoken assumptions about duration.
This system is premised on the unspoken assumption that the dirty, sweaty men down below cannot make sound decisions.
For not only is the logic itself faulty, the entire idea is premised on sheer factual ignorance about the nature, the meaning and the direction of the Super-industrial Revolution.
It is premised on some correlation between the pace and complexity of change and man's decisional capacities.
Third, reflecting the bureaucratic organization of industrialism, technocratic planning was premised on hierarchy.
American culture is entirely premised on "powers of the false," as Deleuze terms it in discussing the quintessentially American con men and forgers who populate the films of Orson Welles.
Images are premised upon a visibility so extreme that it relegates the world to a state of almost transparency.
I would wish for an opportunity to explain why the cause I serve is neither evil nor destructive, but premised on truths that would liberate us all.