0 past simple and past participle of premise --
1 to base a theory, argument, etc. on an idea, thought, or belief: --
He premised his argument on several incorrect assumptions.
By no means a straightforward development, it is premised on moral vacillation and a correspondingly fluctuating appearance of worth.
Moreover, legislation on community participation in irrigation was premised on the experience of its absence.
The superman's self-transformation was premised on the devaluation of the mass or the crowd figured as female.
Analysis is premised upon a specific belief and the goal is not that of neutrality, but the identification and critique of value.
It is premised on the assumption that teachers' behaviors and thinking are always related to the specific context in which they are working.
All these definitions and approaches are premised on one 'fact': that the world has become a 'global village'.
In the first place, it is far from conclusive that the sociological generalizations on which they are premised demonstrate the indispensability of coercion.
Through the seventeenth century, even thinkers labeled rationalist premised their arguments for toleration on promoting religious and ethical values.
