subsume

Definition

To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin subsūmere, from sub- + sūmō (“I take”). Compare English consume.

Example Sentences

• "Near-synonym: comprise"
• "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;"