About The Word Subsume
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Subsume
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What's The Definition Of Subsume?
[v] consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle
[v] contain or include; "This new system subsumes the old one" Synonyms | Synonyms for Subsume: colligate Related Terms | Find terms related to Subsume: Subsume In Webster's Dictionary \Sub*sume"\, v. t. [Pref. sub- + L. sumere to take.]
To take up into or under, as individual under species,
species under genus, or particular under universal; to place
(any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to
include under something else.
To subsume one proposition under another. --De Quincey.
A principle under which one might subsume men's most
strenuous efforts after righteousness. --W. Pater.
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