subsume

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  1. transitive verb To classify, include, or incorporate in a more comprehensive category or under a general principle: "The evolutionarily later always subsumes and includes the evolutionarily earlier” (Frederick Turner).

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  • We subsume, so to speak, the non-homogeneity of equally remunerated labour units in the equipment, which we regard as less and less adapted to employ the available labour units as output increases, instead of regarding the available labour units as less and less adapted to use a homogeneous capital equipment. —  The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money: Project Gutenberg Australia
  • That's right, if you can use the words "subsume," "metaphysical," "fetishistic," "disaffection" and —  Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
  • These are ideas whose times have not officially come, thank God, and if justice avails itself, your vote may count in the cosmic quest to kill one evil twin before the pair combine to subsume us in 2009. —  Gawker: Defamer
  • Easier in that context for others to subsume them eventually. —  Irish Blogs
  • YEI to subsume YES For its 10-year anniversary, the Yale Entrepreneurial Society will surrender a chunk of its market share. —  Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
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  1. Medieval Latin subsūmere : Latin sub-, sub- + Latin sūmere, to take; see em- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from New Latin *subsumere, from Latin sub, under, + sumere, take: see assume.
 

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