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Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall.

To divide along the mesial plane.

A division along the mesial plane; also, one of the parts so divided.

Interference; interposition. [Obs.] Bacon.

To manumit. [Obs.] Dryden.

ly stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition. The premises observed, Thy will by my performance shall be served. Shak.

A surmise previously formed. Shak.

forbearance of a specified act. For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise. Gal. iii. 18.

The person to whom a promise is made.

One who promises.

To demise back; to convey or transfer back, as an estate.

To send, give, or grant back; torelease a claim to; to resign or surrender by deed; to return. Blackstone.

A Japanese musical instrument with three strings, resembling a guitar or banjo.

An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees. Hutton.

cion; guess; as, the surmisses of jealousy or of envy. [We] double honor gain From his surmise proved false. Milton. No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practicies contradict his profession; not upon small surmises. Swift.

One who surmises.

To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.

nrestricted; unconditional; as, absolute authority, monarchy, sovereignty, an absolute promise or command; absolute power; an absolute monarch.

To receive as obligatory and promise to pay; as, to accept a bill of exchange. Bouvier.

ct; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise. This that is written must yet be accomplished in me. Luke xxii. 37.