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Definition of Subsume
1. Verb. Contain or include. "This new system subsumes the old one"
2. Verb. Consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle.
Definition of Subsume
1. v. t. 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.
Definition of Subsume
1. Verb. To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain under something else. ¹
2. Verb. To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule; to colligate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subsume
1. to classify within a larger category [v -SUMED, -SUMING, -SUMES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subsume
Literary usage of Subsume
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Its business [that of the understanding] is to judge or subsume different
conceptions or perceptions under more general conceptions that connect them ..."
2. Knowledge and Reality: A Criticism of Mr. F. H. Bradley's "Principles of Logic" by Bernard Bosanquet (1885)
"... to our minds by some general name which applies to all, and which, as the
appellation of concrete individuals, we subsume under another predicate. ..."
3. Text-book to Kant: The Critique of Pure Reason : Aesthetic, Categories by Immanuel Kant, James Hutchison Stirling (1881)
"Now it is judgment that in both cases will produce the conjunction: it is judgment
that will subsume the particular empirical multiples under their ..."
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