Subsume

Origin

From Late Latin subsumō, equivalent to the Latin sub- ("sub-") and sūmō ("to take"), confer the English consume.

Full definition of subsume

Verb

1. To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain under something else.
• 1961: J. A. Philip. Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato. In: Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92. p. 453--468.no allusion is made to forms because Plato is subsuming under the class of productive crafts both divine and human imitation;
2. To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate

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