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Premising
- verb - furnish with a preface or introduction; "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"
- set forth beforehand, often as an explanation; "He premised these remarks so that his readers might understand"
- take something as preexisting and given
Presiding
- verb - act as president; "preside over companies and corporations"
Presidios
- noun - a fortress established in the southwestern United States by the Spanish in order to protect their missions and other holdings; "Tucson was first settled as a walled presidio"
Presidium
- noun - a permanent executive committee in socialist countries that has all the powers of some larger legislative body and that acts for it when it is not in session
Pretibial
- - Situated in front of the tibia.
Prevising
- verb - realize beforehand
- warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning; "I forewarned him of the trouble that would arise if he showed up at his ex-wife's house"
Prevision
- noun - a prophetic vision (as in a dream)
- seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing
- the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
- the power to foresee the future
Primitial
- - Being of the first production; primitive; original.
Primitive
- adjective - a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived
- a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization
- a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms; "`pick' is the primitive from which `picket' is derived"
- Basic
- belonging to an early stage of technical development; characterized by simplicity and (often) crudeness;
- little evolved from or characteristic of an earlier ancestral type; "archaic forms of life"; "primitive mammals"; "the okapi is a short-necked primitive cousin of the giraffe"
- of or created by one without formal training; simple or naive in style; "primitive art such as that by Grandma Moses is often colorful and striking"
- used of preliterate or tribal or nonindustrial societies; "primitive societies"