Both Uses of
premise
in
Northanger Abbey
- The premises are before you.†
Chpt 19 *
- The influence of fresh objects and fresh air, however, was of great use in dissipating these embarrassing associations; and, having reached the ornamental part of the premises, consisting of a walk round two sides of a meadow, on which Henry's genius had begun to act about half a year ago, she was sufficiently recovered to think it prettier than any pleasure-ground she had ever been in before, though there was not a shrub in it higher than the green bench in the corner.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(premise as in: the premise of the argument) something assumed to be true and upon which other things are based