Promise

prom'is, n. an engagement to do or not to do something expectation or that which affords expectation.—*/./, to make an engagement to do Or not to do something to afford reason to expect to a ure to engage to bestow. ns. Prom'iser, Promisor. [Lit. ‘a sending forward,’ Fr. prome e L. promt a, premitio, to send forward—pro, forward, and mit to, to send. See Mi ion.)