subsume : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: subsume	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for subsume
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
subsume v contain or include; "This new system subsumes the old one" consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle Synonym(s): subsume, colligate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Subsume \Subsume"\, 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.