supersume

English

Verb

supersume (third-person singular simple present supersumes, present participle supersuming, simple past and past participle supersumed)

1. To include or subsume into a higher-level concept.
   • 2003, Commission internationale pour les droits des gais et des lesbiennes, Scott Long, A. Widney Brown, Gail Cooper, Human Rights Watch (Organization), More Than a Name: State-sponsored Homophobia and Its Consequences in Southern Africa, Human Rights Watch, →ISBN, page 259:

     Early Roman-Dutch law contained an offense, or a complex of offenses, variously termed sodomie, onkuisheid tegen de natuur (lewdness against nature) or, in Latin, venus monstrosa. The word sodomie came to supersume or include the other two: it was, however, broadly defined. As a 1987 Zimbabwean High Court decision declared, reflecting on the development of the term: systems. Under the influence of British rule (since the United Kingdom […]

   • 2012 December 6, C. Truesdell, Essays in the History of Mechanics, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 65:

     […] this application joined other data from which he inferred the first vague concept — so far as I know, he was the first to do so — of a fluid as supersuming both water and air.