præmise

plural præmises

1. archaicArchaic spelling of premise.

   The axioms were commonly shared amongst all, which would yield more hard truth and false values to the rights of women, and indeed a ‘should’, but only from the præmise of the axioms, which are still there by virtue of man.

   2008 March 28, "radjaerna" (username), Should women have equal rights with men?, in the RichardDawkins.net Forum

present singular third person præmises · participle present præmising · participle past præmised · past præmised

1. archaicArchaic spelling of premise.

   My dutie to your honor præmised, &c.

   1564–1593, a scrap of a work reprinted in 1910 by Tucker Brooke in The Works of Christopher Marlowe, page 359

   2 more examples

   […] præmising somthing as a Preface of the great deliverances which God vouchsafed that Virgin Queen.

   c. 1625, a scrap of a work reprinted in 1906 by Samuel Purchas in Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells by Englishmen and Others (J. MacLehose and Sons), page 451

   This I thought good to præmise that you should not be dishartned when you meat with diversities of oppinions in the folloing discourse: and because the former Phylosophers had their Method more Systematical, than the latter; I have therefore Chosen their method, and noted the Others Matter by the Way in those places where I observe a discrepance.

   1686, Rev. Charles Morton of Newington Green, “Preface”, in Compendium Physicae; republished as Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, volume 33, The Society, 1940, page 5