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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The act of subsuming, or of including under another.

The first act of consciousness was a

subsumption

of that of which we were conscious under this notion.

Sir W. Hamilton.

That which is subsumed, as the minor clause or premise of a syllogism.

But whether you see cause to go against the rule, or the

subsumption

under the rule.

De Quincey.

subsumption ‎(plural subsumptions)

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