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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Subsume

· Sub·sume · IPA /səbˈsuːm/
01 v. t. To take up into or under, as individual under species, species under genus, or particular under universal; to place (any one cognition) und…
  1. 1.
    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.