authors is a form of:
Premise
noun — Plural: Premises
- 1.
- (a statement on which reasoning is based a previous statement serving as a basis for an argument) reasonable premise ការសន្មត pl. on the premise ទីក្នុងបរិវេណ
Example: Advice to investors was based on the promise that interest rates would continue to fall. - 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) អចលនទ្រព្យក្នុងឯកសារផលដំបូង (នៃដី រុក្ខជាតិ)
verb — past tense: premised ; past participle: premised ; present participle: premising ;
- 1.
- ថ្លែង, ចែងជាដំបូងសំដីប្រារព្ធ
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) (to set forht beforehand or as introductory to the main subject) សំអាង
ENGLISH MEANING
noun — Plural: Premises
- 1.
- A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as, to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.
- 2.
- A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
- 3.
- Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
- 4.
- Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., 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.
verb — past tense: premised ; past participle: premised ; present participle: premising ;
- 1.
- To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.
- 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.
- 3.
- (INTRANSITIVE) To make a premise; to set forth something as a premise.
- 1.
- assumption, base, basis, foundation, ground, groundwork, postulate, presumption, presupposition
- 1.
- derivative, implication, superstructure, trimming