Hypertext Webster Gateway: "incorporate"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Incorporate \In*cor"po*rate\, a. [L. incorporatus. See {In-}
not, and {Corporate}.]
1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body;
incorporeal; spiritual.

Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things
invisible, and incorporate. --Sir W.
Raleigh.

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

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Incorporate \In*cor"po*rate\, a. [L. incorporatus, p. p. of
incorporare to incorporate; pref. in- in + corporare to make
into a body. See {Corporate}.]
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. --Shak.

A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold.
--Bacon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Incorporate \In*cor"po*rate\, 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. --Bacon.

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. --Daniel.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Incorporate \In*cor"po*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Incorporated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Incorporating}.]
1. 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. --Shak.

2. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to;
to embody.

The idolaters, who worshiped their images as golds,
supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.
--Bp.
Stillingfleet.

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

4. 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. --Addison.

5. 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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

incorporate
adj : formed or united into a whole [syn: {incorporated}, {integrated},
{merged}, {unified}]
v 1: make into a whole or make part of a whole; "She incorporated
his suggestions into her proposal" [syn: {integrate}]
[ant: {disintegrate}]
2: include or contain; have as a component; "A totally new idea
is comprised in this paper"; "The record contains many old
songs from the 1930's" [syn: {contain}, {comprise}]
3: form a corporation; in business
4: unite or merge with something already in existence;
"incorporate this document with those pertaining to the
same case"


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