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verb

Incorporate v. t. (past & past part. incorporated; pres. part. incorporating)

To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass. "By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, Till holy church incorporate two in one."

To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody. "The idolaters, who worshiped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein."

To unite with, or introduce into, a mass already formed; as, to incorporate copper with silver; used with with and into.

To unite intimately; to blend; to assimilate; to combine into a structure or organization, whether material or mental; as, to incorporate provinces into the realm; to incorporate another's ideas into one's work. "The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community."

To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc.

Incorporate v. i. To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; usually followed by with. "Painters' colors and ashes do better incorporate will oil." "He never suffers wrong so long to grow, And to incorporate with right so far As it might come to seem the same in show."

adjective

Incorporate adj.

Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. "Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate."

Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association.

Incorporate adj. Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied. "As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds Had been incorporate." "A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold."

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Etymology of 'Incorporate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incorporate" Quotes from Famous Books

... temple, walked on the sea, denounced the Pharisee, and accepted the penitent. These functions, as exercised by him, were only in their incipient stage; he came,—to exemplify them indeed, but chiefly to incorporate them in a body which should hold and transmit them to the end of time. From his person they passed to the College of the Twelve, under the headship of Peter; and thence, in perpetual apostleship, to the bishops and pastors, ordained through legitimate ...

— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 • Various

... this book incorporate A thousand facts, brought up to date, Prove that each father, mother, son, In ...

— Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century • Edmund O. Jones

... this little book having been exhausted long ago, the writer in this second issue takes opportunity to correct sundry errata, typographical and other, and at the same time to incorporate such new information in reference to individual species and to the subject entire as the researches of more recent ...

— The North American Slime-Moulds • Thomas H. (Thomas Huston) MacBride

... it became public property. The idea was too simple in its grandeur, and was of too easy a kind not to call up a host of imitators. Of these Blanchard was one of the first; but this mechanician was anxious to incorporate his own invention with that of Montgolfier, and he arranged that on the 2nd of March, 1784, he should make an ascent in what he still called his "flying vessel," which ...

— Wonderful Balloon Ascents - or, the Conquest of the Skies • Fulgence Marion

... Potter looked in at the "Independent Temperance" to compliment the little deformed man on the very learned character of his lecture, much of which (so he said) had so deeply interested him, that he had resolved to incorporate it into his next political speech, which he intended soon to make in opposition to that arch agitator, Thomas Benton, Esq., and which the state of the nation demanded should be done at no very distant ...

— The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter • "Pheleg Van Trusedale"

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