incorporate
verb
- include
- form a corporation
- blend, mix, consolidate into one
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚət/ / /ɪŋˈkɔː(ɹ).pəɹ.ət/ / /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/ / /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/ / /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹeɪt/
adj
Etymology: From in- (“not”) + corporate.
- 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.”
- 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”).
- To include (something) as a part.
“The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.”
“to incorporate another's ideas into one's work”
- To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
“Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking.”
- To admit as a member of a company
- 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.”
- 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).
- 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.
“do not deny , that there was such an Opinion among the Heathens , that Spirits might possess Images , and be incorporated with them”