Associations to the word «Subsume»

Wiktionary

SUBSUME, verb. To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain under something else.
SUBSUME, verb. To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate

Dictionary definition

SUBSUME, verb. Contain or include; "This new system subsumes the old one".
SUBSUME, verb. Consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope