subsume

subsume
    v 1: contain or include; "This new system subsumes the old one"
    2: consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule
       or principle [syn: {subsume}, {colligate}]
    

Subsume \Sub*sume"\, v. t. [Pref. sub- + L. sumere to take.]
   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.
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         To subsume one proposition under another. --De Quincey.
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         A principle under which one might subsume men's most
         strenuous efforts after righteousness.   --W. Pater.
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21 Moby Thesaurus words for "subsume":
      affect, assume, bring, call for, comprehend, comprise, contain,
      embody, embrace, encompass, entail, have, implicate, imply,
      involve, lead to, presume, presuppose, require, take, take in