"supersume" meaning in All languages combined

See supersume on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: supersumes [present, singular, third-person], supersuming [participle, present], supersumed [participle, past], supersumed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} supersume (third-person singular simple present supersumes, present participle supersuming, simple past and past participle supersumed)
  1. To include or subsume into a higher-level concept.
    Sense id: en-supersume-en-verb-J5uySZ~Y Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "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, page 259",
          "text": "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[…]",
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