Definitions for subsume

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subsume sub·sume

Spelling: [suh b-soom]

IPA: /səbˈsum/

Subsume is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in subsume (bemssuu).

Definitions for subsume

verb (used with object)

1. to consider or include (an idea, term, proposition, etc.) as part of a more comprehensive one.
2. to bring (a case, instance, etc.) under a rule.
3. to take up into a more inclusive classification.

Origin of subsume

1525-35; Medieval Latin subsūmere, equivalent to Latin sub- sub- + sūmere to take; see consume

Examples for subsume

We are invited to subsume questions of law and of the application of law under the social ideal of the time and place.

I don't think ISIS will subsume itself to the Naqshabandi's.

Similarly the actions of animal life depend upon and subsume the laws of organic matter.

Now under these laws the Judgement is determinant, for it has nothing to do but to subsume under given laws.

In the next place I subsume a cognition under the condition of the rule (and this is the minor) by means of the judgement.

Hence the problem arises, 'How is it possible to subsume objects of empirical perception under pure conceptions?'

It only remains to subsume each empirical event under its proper category.

Netanyahu may finally be ready to subsume his ego and ideology for the sake of his country.

In the same way the actions of a self-conscious moral agent, such as man, depend upon and subsume the laws of animal life.

He may finally be ready to subsume his ego and ideology for the sake of his country.