2. To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to
explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on
which rest the subsequent reasonings.
I premise these particulars that the reader may know that I enter upon it as a very ungrateful task.
Addison. Premise
(Pre*mise") v. i. To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise. Swift.
Premiss
(Prem"iss) n. Premise. Whately. I. Watts
Premit
(Pre*mit") v. t. To premise. [Obs.] Donne.
Premium
(Pre"mi*um) n.; pl. Premiums [L. praemium, originally, what one has got before or better
than others; prae before + emere to take, buy. See Redeem.]
1. A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward
or prize to be adjudged; a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for discoveries, etc.
To think it not the necessity, but the premium and privilege of life, to eat and sleep without any regard
to glory.
Burke.
The law that obliges parishes to support the poor offers a premium for the encouragement of idleness.
Franklin. 2. Something offered or given for the loan of money; bonus; — sometimes synonymous with interest, but
generally signifying a sum in addition to the capital.
People were tempted to lend, by great premiums and large interest.
Swift. 3. A sum of money paid to underwriters for insurance, or for undertaking to indemnify for losses of any
kind.
4. A sum in advance of, or in addition to, the nominal or par value of anything; as, gold was at a premium; he
sold his stock at a premium.
Premolar
(Pre*mo"lar) a. (Anat.) Situated in front of the molar teeth. — n. An anterior molar tooth
which has replaced a deciduous molar. See Tooth.
Premonish
(Pre*mon"ish) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Premonished ; p. pr. & vb. n. Premonishing.] [Pref.
pre- + monish: cf. L. praemonere.] To forewarn; to admonish beforehand. [R.] Herrick.
To teach, and to premonish.
Bk. of Com. Prayer. Premonishment
(Pre*mon"ish*ment) n. Previous warning or admonition; forewarning. Sir H. Wotton.
Premonition
(Pre`mo*ni"tion) n. [L. praemonitio. See Premonish.] Previous warning, notice, or information; forewarning; as,
a premonition of danger.
Premonitor
(Pre*mon"i*tor) n. [L. praemonitor.] One who, or that which, gives premonition.
Premonitory
(Pre*mon"i*to*ry) a. [L. praemonitorius.] Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory
symptoms of disease. — Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly adv.
Premonstrant
(Pre*mon"strant) n. A Premonstratensian.
Premonstrate
(Pre*mon"strate) v. t. [L. praemonstratus, p. p. of praemonstrare; prae before + monstrate
to show.] To show beforehand; to foreshow. [R.] Herbert.
