Usually means: Initial statement forming argument basis.
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  8. premiss: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  11. premiss: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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noun:  Alternative spelling of premise [A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.]
verb:  Alternative spelling of premise [To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.]

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