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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To premise.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To premise.

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  • verb obsolete To premise.

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  • Fit iterum cerastes in semita que quos fideles repperit et sese ad precepti celestis angusta itinera constringens non solum nequitia callide persuasionis impedit sed etiam terrore potestatis premit et in persecutionis angore post beneficia ficte dulcedinis, exercet cornua potestatis.

    Sigh. WMAM. 2008

  • Fit iterum cerastes in semita que quos fideles repperit et sese ad precepti celestis angusta itinera constringens non solum nequitia callide persuasionis impedit sed etiam terrore potestatis premit et in persecutionis angore post beneficia ficte dulcedinis, exercet cornua potestatis.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Note 91: Must., p. 22, chap. 64: "deambulare etiam eas et lavari et cibos accipere antiqui iubebant. nos vero non permittimus haec fieri, quia ambulatio infantem prope foris positum premit et matricem quassat, lavacrum vero et vires minuit et digestum corpus mulieris infrigidat, cibus autem qui in frigore datur corrumpitur et non nutrit."

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Magna adeo jactura premit, &c. Fountains of tears who gives, who lends me groans,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • "Híc vástó réx Aeolus antró luctantís ventós tempestátésque sonórás imperió premit ac vinclís et carcere frénat."

    Ritchie's Fabulae Faciles A First Latin Reader John [Editor] Kirtland

  • _B1_ unde rogas forsan fiducia tanta futuri sit mihi? quod fecit quisque tuetur opus, ut Venus artificis labor est et gloria Coi, aequoreo madidas quae premit imbre comas, 30 arcis ut Actaeae uel eburna uel aerea custos bellica Phidiaca stat dea facta manu, uindicat ut Calamis laudem quos fecit equorum, ut similis uerae uacca Myronis opus, sic ego sum rerum non ultima, Sexte, tuarum 35 tutelaeque feror munus opusque tuae.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Latius excisae pestes contagie serpunt, Victoresques suos natio victa premit.

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918

  • The palace was built, but the gods refused to premit their daughters to marry men.

    No Compromise Peace James Hinton 1917

  • Latius excisae pestes contagie serpunt, Victoresques suos natio victa premit.

    Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914

  • There is the hurrying throng of the streets of Rome with all its dangers and discomforts: nobis properantibus opstat unda prior, magno populus premit agmine lumbos qui sequitur; ferit hic cubito, ferit assere duro alter, at hic tignum capiti incutit, ille metretam. pinguia crura luto, planta mox undique magna calcor et in digito clavus mihi militis haeret. nonne vides quanto celebretur sportula fumo? centum convivae, sequitur sua quemque culina.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

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