subsume means to place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 81 out of 100.
subsume is pronounced /səbˈsjuːm/.
Why “subsume” is a great word
SUBSUME — [Verb] To absorb something into a larger or more comprehensive category or principle, resulting in a loss of distinct status. From the Latin sub- ("under") + sumere ("to take"). Unlike “include,” which suggests a simple addition to a set, or “encompass,” which suggests surrounding within a scope, to subsume is the formal, logical act of subordination. It is the taxonomist placing the robin under “Aves,” the bureaucrat dissolving a local custom into a standardized policy, or the poignant memory surrendered to the broad category of “childhood”—a quiet, administrative vanishing by which the particular is consumed by the general.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin subsūmere, from sub- + sūmō (“to take”). Compare English consume.
verb
- To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.“Near-synonym: comprise”
- To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule.