Definition of "incorporate"

incorporate¹

/ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚe(ɪ)t/

verb
third-person singular simple present incorporates, present participle incorporating, simple past and past participle incorporated
1. (transitive) To include (something) as a part.
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  The Romans […] did not subdue a country in order to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.
  1716 March 6 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 19. Friday, February 24. ”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721
  In spite of their small size and low weight, many technical developments which have proved themselves in main-line service have been incorporated, and a novelty in the 2-6-0-type is a tender cab to improve the conditions of tender-first running.
  1947 March and April, “L.M.S.R. Locomotive Developments”, in Railway Magazine, page 66
  The new cars incorporate many features first introduced in the 1938 tube stock, but major changes include the use of rubber for the bogie bolster and axlebox suspension, fluorescent lighting, and the panelling of the cars in unpainted aluminium alloy.
  1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93
2. (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
3. (transitive) To admit as a member of a company
4. (transitive) To form into a legal company.
5. (US, law) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the Fourteenth Amendment, such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
6. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
  Quotations
  By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.
  c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene vi]
7. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
  Quotations
  do not deny , that there was such an Opinion among the Heathens , that Spirits might possess Images , and be incorporated with them
  1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome
adjective
comparative more incorporate, superlative most incorporate
1. (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
  Quotations
  As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate.
  c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
  a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
  1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]
  And gazing on thee, sullen tree,⁠Sick for thy stubborn hardihood,⁠I seem to fail from out my bloodAnd grow incorporate into thee.
  1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], canto II

incorporate²

/ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚət/

adjective
not comparable
1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
  Quotations
  Moses forbore to speak of angels, and of things invisible, and incorporate.
  1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], (please specify |book=1 to 5)
  The air vibrated at a white-hot temperature, the stones seemed to be trembling silently, ready to flow, and in the distance, at a curve of the road, the files of men, guns and horses seemed detached from the earth, and trembled like a mass of jelly in their onward progress, and it seemed to me that they were not living people that I saw before me, but an army of incorporate shadows.
  1905, Leonid Andreyev, translated by Alexandra Linden, The Red Laugh: Fragments of a Discovered Manuscript
2. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.

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