subsumev.

1581 N. Burne Disput. Headdis of Relig. i. f. 4^v Ze subsume that the iustice of Christ is not treulie communicat vnto vs, bot onlie be imputation, sua necessarlie it follouis that the syn of Adam is onlie impute to vs.

?1591 R. Bruce Serm. Sacrament iv. sig. O5^v There is not a law that ever was..deuised; but of all the lawes that euer was made, it is leisom to vs, to haue a care of our health... Now subsume: but the helth of thy saull, stands in the health of thy conscience... Therefore be al laws, thou aught to attend to thy conscience.

1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere 323 Now then I subsume, no religious worship..is due to Saints... Inuocation of Saints is religious worship... Ergo, Inuocation is not due to Saints.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. ii. ii. 371 If any body..take this proposition rigorously and peremptorily, that what wise men affirme is true; and should there vpon subsume with euidence, that wise men say such a particular thing[etc.].

1670 Comenius' Janua Ling. 156 The Major proposeth the basis or ground of the reasoning thus;..the Minor subsumeth,..the conclusion follows.

1734 W. Crawford Short Man. against Infidelity vii. 94 God..may unmake again what he has already made... But then I add, much more may he..annihilate an Offender... But I further subsume, if God can eternally annihilate even an innocent Being, he may do more eternally to the Guilty.

1858 Rambler Sept. 176 You subsume that,..such is the immensity, the grandeur, the admirable structure of the universe, that it carries you necessarily beyond itself.

1874 Catholic World Oct. 83/2 If you subsume, 'Temperance is a virtue', you will immediately obtain the good conclusion that 'Temperance is a rational good'.

1601 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) II. 362 It is subsumit, that diuerse of the ministeris..wes boistit and manassit the day lybellit.

1672 G. Mackenzie Pleadings iv. 63 They subsume, that these Guns were lost casu fortuito, in so far as the Defenders endeavour'd to carry them to Dundee.

1683 J. Dalrymple Decisions Lords of Council & Session I. 119 If the Pursuer insist upon a personal obligation, he ought to subsume, that the Defender borrowed the Watch, or took the custody thereof, and thereby is Personally oblidged to keep and restore.

1747 H. Home Ess. Several Subj. iii. Suppl. Note An Act of the 7th Parliament,..bearing, That the Lands of Doun, &c. were feued by Queen Mary to Sir James Stewart..subsuming, that the said Sir James being descended of the Royal Blood [etc.].

1791 Decisions Court of Session 1778–81 194 When a landlord can subsume, that one year's arrear of rent has been incurred, both the words and spirit of the act of sederunt support him in the requisition therein prescribed.

1818 J. Ivory Form of Process II. 252 The petition..then subsumes the special circumstances of the case, and concludes, that these, or part thereof being proven, a punishment ought to follow, suitable to the offence.

1863 Sc. Law Mag. 2 Index 191/1 A summons subsumed that A. or B. had stolen certain funds from the pursuer, but concluded for decree against A. only.

1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend (new ed.) III. 255 Man in his idea, and as subsumed in the divine humanity, in whom alone God loved the world.

1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 176/1 As sensation only receives matter upon the affection of the senses, it is a mere receptivity, whereas the understanding, which subsumes the given multiple into unity, is a spontaneity.

1871 St. G. Mivart On Genesis of Species 23 ‘Natural Selection’ itself must be capable of being subsumed into some higher law.

1906 G. Saintsbury Hist. Eng. Prosody I. 288 The literature of the fifteenth century, with that first quarter of the sixteenth which is by pretty common consent to be subsumed in it for Southern England.

1966 New Statesman 4 Mar. 299/2 The unmarried children and the employed persons in the household were subsumed in the personality of their fathers or masters.

1991 Jrnl. Hist. of Coll. 3 133/1 His policy was vindicated in 1859 when the Institution's collection (including the Lomellini Family) was subsumed in the new National Gallery of Scotland.

2004 Q Sept. 137/1 Electroclash did not die, it has merely been subsumed into the much broader..electro-disco-punk landscape.

1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 219 Under some one or other of these Forms, the Resemblances and Differences must be subsumed in order to be conceivable.

1846 T. De Quincey On Christianity in Tait's Edinb. Mag. June 348/2 In subsuming the given case proposed under the Scriptural principle.

1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant i. 138 To subsume the complexities of knowledge under its simplest principles.

1884 tr. H. Lotze Logic 247 We must know beforehand that μ and ν can be subsumed under the species m and n of which the equation has been proved to be true.

1885 W. Pater Marius the Epicurean xv A principle under which one might subsume men's most strenuous efforts after righteousness.

1887 W. T. Martin Evol. Hypoth. 42 A law may be subsumed under a higher law.

1899 J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris II. 197 Every form of decorative art could be subsumed under the single head of architecture.

1910 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 461 Perhaps the wider term Aegean will come into general use; under it Minoan and Mycenean may be subsumed to describe successive stages in European developement.

1989 E. Hoffman Lost in Transl. (1991) i. 84 America—Canada in our minds is automatically subsumed under that category—has for us the old fabulous associations: streets paved with gold, the goose that laid the golden egg.

2007 Jrnl. Human Evol. 53 41/1 In the 1950s, researchers began to recognize that taxa such as Pithecanthropus, Sinanthropus, Telanthropus, and Atlanthropus could be subsumed under one species: Homo erectus.

1863 J. Austin's Provinc. Jurispr. Determined (ed. 2) II. xxvi. 180 I must correctly subsume the specific case as falling within the law.

1871 T. H. Huxley Wks. (1893) II. 182 These forces..operate according to definite laws..in accordance with some general law which subsumes them all.

1896 Fortn. Rev. July 146 Why continue to subsume when the only result will be to produce a formula which..may utterly fail?

1906 Hibbert Jrnl. Apr. 553 [Idealism] has shown how Spirit subsumes the world as its own.

1951 M. I. Findlay Stud. in Land & Credit in Anc. Athens vi. 75 The right to sell subsumes the right to borrow on one's property and to risk forfeit.

1997 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Aug. 9/2 As a single civilization consumes what is left of others, it also subsumes them—though in a much shallower way than enthusiastic globalists naively suppose.