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premiss
 
Noun premiss has 1 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 to play"
    --1 is a kind of postulate, posit
    --1 has particulars:
     major premise, major premiss; minor premise, minor premiss, subsumption; thesis; condition, precondition, stipulation; scenario
    Derived form: verb premiss1
Verb premiss has 1 sense
  1. premise, premiss - take something as preexisting and given
    --1 is one way to presuppose, suppose
    Derived form: noun premiss1
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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