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Subsume

verb
1.
Contain or include.
2.
Consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle.  Synonym: colligate.






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"Subsume" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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



Words linked to "Subsume" :   include, subsumption



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