premise

A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.

Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.

The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.

[usually plural] A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.

[usually plural] Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.

To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.

To make a premise.

To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows.

To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.