"premiss" in the noun sense
1. premise, premiss, assumption
a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn
"on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not play"
"premiss" in the verb sense
1. premise, premiss
take something as preexisting and given
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