premit
English
Etymology
From Latin praemitto.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɹɪˈmɪt/
- Hyphenation: prem‧it
Verb
premit (third-person singular simple present premits, present participle premitting, simple past and past participle premitted)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To premise.
- 1610, John Donne, “A Preface to the Priestes, and Iesuits, and to Their Disciples in This Kingdome”, in Pseudo-Martyr. […], London: Printed by W[illiam] Stansby for Walter Burre, OCLC 28791369, paragraph 33:
- Thus much I vvas vvilling to premit, to avvaken you, if it pleaſe you to heare it, to a iuſt loue of your ovvne ſafetie, of the peace of your Countrey, of the honour and reputation of your Countreymen, and of the integritie of that, vvhich you call the Catholicke cauſe; […]
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Further reading
- premit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- permit
Latin
Verb
premit
- third-person singular present active indicative of premō