subsume

From Late Latin subsumō, equivalent to the Latin sub- (“sub-”) and sūmō (“to take”), confer the English consume.

subsume (third-person singular simple present subsumes, present participle subsuming, simple past and past participle subsumed)

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

2. To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate

• subsumption

subsume

1. first-person singular present indicative of subsumer
2. third-person singular present indicative of subsumer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of subsumer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of subsumer
5. second-person singular imperative of subsumer

subsume

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of subsumir.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of subsumir.
3. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of subsumir.