subsume
Etymology
From Late Latin subsumō, equivalent to the Latin sub- (“sub-”) and sūmō (“to take”), cf. the English consume.
verb
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To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else. March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, 'Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary A few years later (in a paper published by the Royal Society in 1970, by which time Hawking had become a fellow “for distinction in science” of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge), he and I joined forces to publish an even more powerful theorem which subsumed almost all the work in this area that had gone before.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; -
To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate
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