premise: to <mask> a problem in Euclid; to <mask> a proposition or a declaration; the court <mask>s the advocate or his argument; to <mask> the sacred oracles; to <mask> a nod or a wink.
hypothesis: the best context for <mask> here is To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; but not To lose the remembrance of; to let go from the memory; to cease to have in mind.