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Noun premiss has 1 sense
- 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 to play"
--1 is a kind of postulate, posit
--1 has particulars:
Verb premiss has 1 sense
- premise, premiss - take something as preexisting and given
--1 is one way to presuppose, suppose
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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