præmise

Noun

 * 1) * 2008 March 28, "radjaerna" (username), Should women have equal rights with men?, in the RichardDawkins.net Forum:
 * 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.
 * 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.

Verb

 * 1) * 1564–1593, a scrap of a work reprinted in 1910 by Tucker Brooke in The Works of Christopher Marlowe, page 359:
 * My dutie to your honor præmised, &c.
 * 1) * 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:
 * præmising somthing [sic] as a Preface of the great deliverances which God vouchsafed that Virgin Queen.
 * præmising somthing [sic] as a Preface of the great deliverances which God vouchsafed that Virgin Queen.