supersume

present singular third person supersumes · participle present supersuming · participle past supersumed · past supersumed

1. To include or subsume into a higher-level concept.

   […] 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.

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

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   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[…]

   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