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)

1. (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: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Walter Burre, →OCLC, 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; […]

Further reading

• “premit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• permit

Latin

Verb

premit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of premō