Meaning of supersume | Babel Free

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To include or subsume into a higher-level concept.

Examples

“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[…]”

“[…] 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.”

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