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incorporate

verb

  1. include
  2. form a corporation
  3. blend, mix, consolidate into one
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adjective

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚət/ / /ɪŋˈkɔː(ɹ).pəɹ.ət/ / /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/ / /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/ / /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹeɪt/

adj

Etymology: From in- (“not”) + corporate.

  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

verb

Etymology: From Middle English, from Late Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus, corporis (“body”).

  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

  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