Definition of Subsume

Sub`sume´
v. t.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.


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affect, assume, bring, call for, comprehend, comprise, contain, embody, embrace, encompass, entail, have, implicate, imply, involve, lead to, presume, presuppose, require, take, take in

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