Emily Dickinson Lexicon

PRE-MISE, v.i.

To state antecedent propositions. – Swift.

PRE-MISE, v.t. [s as z. L. præmissus, præmitto, to send before.]

1. To speak or write before, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows. I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task. – Addison.
2. To send before the time. [Not in use.] – Shak.
3. To lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings. – Burnet.
4. To use or apply previously. If venesection and a cathartic be premised. – Darwin.

PRE-MIS-ED, pp.

Spoken or written before, introductory to the main subject.

PREM'IS-ES, n. [Fr. premisses; L. præmissa.]

1. In logic, the two first propositions of a syllogism, from which the inference or conclusion is drawn; as, All sinners deserve punishment; A. B. is a sinner. These propositions, which are the premises; being true or admitted, the conclusion follows, that A. B. deserves punishment.
2. Propositions antecedently supposed or proved. While the premises stand firm, it is impossible to shake the conclusion. – Decay of Piety.
3. In law, land or other things mentioned or described in the preceding part of a deed.

PRE-MIS-ING, ppr.

Speaking or writing before; laying down the premises.

PREM'ISS, n.

Antecedent proposition. [Rarely used.] – Watts.

PRE'MI-UM, n. [L.]

1. Properly, a reward or recompense; a prize to be won by competition; the reward or prize to be adjudged to the best performance or production.
2. The recompense or prize offered for a specific discovery or for success in an enterprise; as for the discovery of the longitude, or of a northwest passage to the Pacific Ocean.
3. A bounty; something offered or given for the loan of money, usually, a sum beyond the interest.
4. The recompense to underwriters for insurance, or for undertaking to indemnify for losses of any kind.
5. It is sometimes synonymous with interest, but generally in obtaining loans, it is a sum per cent, distinct from the interest. The bank lends money to government at a premium of 2 per cent.
6. A bounty. The law that obliges parishes to support the poor, offers a premium for the encouragement of idleness. – Franklin.

PRE-MON'ISH, v.t. [L. præmoneo; præ and moneo, to warn.]

To forewarn; to admonish beforehand.

PRE-MON'ISH-ED, pp.

Forewarned.

PRE-MON'ISH-ING, ppr.

Admonishing beforehand.

PRE-MON'ISH-MENT, n.

Previous warning or admonition; previous information.

PRE-MO-NI'TION, n.

Previous warning, notice or information. Christ gave to his disciples premonitions of their sufferings.

PRE-MON'I-TO-RI-LY, adv.

By way of premonition.

PRE-MON'I-TO-RY, a.

Giving previous warning or notice.

PRE-MON'STRANTS, n. [L. præmonstrans.]

A religious order of regular canons or monks of Premontre, in the Isle of France; instituted by Norbert, in 1120. They are called also white canons. These monks were poor at first, but within thirty years they had more than one hundred abbeys in France and Germany, and in time they were established in all parts of christendom. – Encyc.

PRE-MON'STRATE, v.t. [L. præmonstro; præ, before, and monstro, to show.]

To show beforehand. [Little used.] – Herbert.

PRE-MON-STRA'TION, n.

A showing beforehand. [Little used.] – Shelford.

PRE-MORSE, a. [premors'; L. præmordeo, præmorsus; præ and mordeo, to gnaw.]

Bitten off. Premorse roots, in botany, are such as are not tapering, but blunt at the end, as if bitten off short. Premorse leaves, are such as end very obtusely with unequal notches. – Martyn.

PRE-MO'TION, n. [pre and motion.]

Previous motion or excitement to action. Encyc.

PRE-MU-NI'RE, n. [See Præmunire. If really anglicized, premunire is the regular orthography. But this is not yet settled.]

1. In law, the offense of introducing foreign authority into England, and the writ which is grounded on the offense.
2. The penalty incurred by the offense above described. Wolsey incurred a premunire, and forfeited his honor, estate and life. – South.

PRE-MU-NI'TION, n. [præmunitio, from præmunio.]

An anticipation of objections. – Dict.

PRE-NO'MEN, n. [L. prænomen.]

Among the Romans, a name prefixed to the family name, answering to our Christian name; as Canes, Lucius, Marcus, &c.

PRE-NOM'IN-ATE, a.

Forenamed. – Shak.

PRE-NOM'IN-ATE, v.t. [L. præ and nomino, to name.]

To forename.

PRE-NOM'IN-A-TED, pp.

Forenamed.