supersuming

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.
   • 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...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...