incorporate
verbadjectiveadjectiveattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt//
- United Kingdom//ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹət//
- United Kingdom//ɪŋˈkɔː(ɹ).pəɹ.ət//
- United States//ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt//
- United States//ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹeɪt//
- United States//ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.ət//
To include (something) as a part.
verb
- 1
To include (something) as a part.
The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
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.
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.
- 2
To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking.
- 3
To admit as a member of a company
- 4
To form into a legal company.
The company was incorporated in 1980.
In last week's primary election, more than 90% of voters approved incorporating the community of Mountain House in San Joaquin County, creating the first new city in California in over a decade. […] Now, amid another building boom, Mountain House is set to become a city, the first new California city since Jurupa Valley became incorporated in Riverside County in 2011.
- 5
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.
By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.
- 7
To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
do not deny , that there was such an Opinion among the Heathens , that Spirits might possess Images , and be incorporated with them
Etymology
From Middle English, from Late Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus, corporis (“body”).
adjective
- 1
obsoleteCorporate; 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
And gazing on thee, sullen tree, Sick for thy stubborn hardihood, I seem to fail from out my blood And grow incorporate into thee.
adjective
- 1
Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
Moses forbore to speak of angels, and of things invisible, and incorporate.
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.
- 2
Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
an incorporate banking association
Etymology
From in- (“not”) + corporate.
Forms
- comparative
- more incorporate
- superlative
- most incorporate
- past tense
- incorporated
- past participle
- incorporated
- present participle
- incorporating
- third person singular
- incorporates