Category:Subsume

Sub*sume", v. t. Etym: [pref. sub- + l. sumere to take.]

Defn: 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.