Premises
['premɪsɪz] or ['prɛmɪsɪz]
Definition
(noun.) land and the buildings on it; 'bread is baked on the premises'; 'the were evicted from the premises'.
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Definition
(pl. ) of Premise
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Antecedent, ground
ANT:Consequent, inference, deduction, conclusion
Checker: Nellie
Examples
- It's convenient to have you at all times ready on the premises. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Therefore, betwixt your breakfast and your supper,--on the premises I expect to find you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He slept on the premises. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- It stopped, and a well-known nasal voice cried aloud, Boy (probably addressing Harry Scott, who usually hung about the premises from 9 a. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- These he deposited on the premises in such positions that she should see them as if by accident. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- These same fields were opposite the Wilfer premises. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- In a tool-shed at the bottom of the garden, lay the relics of building-materials, left by masons lately employed to repair a part of the premises. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And the conclusions drawn from them are sound, although the premises are fictitious. Plato. The Republic.
- Do not fear, Mr Boffin, that I shall contaminate the premises which your gold has bought, with MY lowly pursuits. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I walked round the corner, saw the City and Suburban Bank abutted on our friend's premises, and felt that I had solved my problem. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- When you get to the top, there's a view of the neighbouring premises, not to be surpassed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- This time Raffles declined to be seen off the premises, as he expressed it--declined to quit Middlemarch under Bulstrode's eyes. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This last manifestation as by far the most alarming, by reason of its threatening his prolonged stay on the premises, necessitated vigorous measures. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- His shell-jacket was as much too little for him as he was too big for the premises. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- In that case I should be glad to hear the evidence and to examine the premises without an instant of unnecessary delay. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Editor: Philip