subsume

verb

Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin subsūmere, from sub- + sūmō (“to take”). Compare English consume.

1. To place (any one cognition) under another as belonging to it; to include or contain something else.

   “Near-synonym: comprise”

   “March 14, 2018, Roger Penrose writing in The Guardian, Mind over matter': Stephen Hawking – obituary A few years later (in a paper published by the Royal Society in 1970, by which time Hawking had become a fellow “for distinction in science” of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge), he and I joined forces to publish an even more powerful theorem which subsumed almost all the work in this area that had gone before.”

2. To consider an occurrence as part of a principle or rule.