Open English Wordnet
Nouns
(n)premise, premiss, assumptiona statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn“on the assumption that he has been injured, we can infer that he will not play” Verbs
(v)premiseset forth beforehand, often as an explanation“He premised these remarks so that his readers might understand” (v)precede, preface, premise, introducefurnish with a preface or introduction“She always precedes her lectures with a joke”,
“He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution”