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Subsume  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. "To subsume one proposition under another." "A principle under which one might subsume men's most strenuous efforts after righteousness."





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... drag with a larger net, to make a more comprehensive synthesis, than any or than all of them put together. In feeling after the central type of man, he must embrace all eccentricities; his cosmology must subsume all cosmologies, and the feelings that gave birth to them; his statement of facts must include all religion and all irreligion, Christ and Boodha, God and the devil. The world as it is, and the whole world as it is, physical, and spiritual, ...
— Familiar Studies of Men & Books • Robert Louis Stevenson


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