Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.