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 or contain under something else
no allusion is made to forms because Plato is subsuming under the class of productive crafts both divine and human imitation;.
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
If something is subsumed within a larger group or class, it is included within it, rather than being considered as something separate. After that the two alliances might be subsumed into a new European security system With unification, East Germany was subsumed by capitalist West Germany. to include someone or something as a member of a group or type, rather than considering it separately subsume sb/sth under sth (subsumere, from sumere )