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verb

Incorporate v. t. (past & past part. incorporated; pres. part. incorporating)

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. "The idolaters, who worshiped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein."

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

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."

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.

Incorporate 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." "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."

adjective

Incorporate adj.

Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. "Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate."

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

Incorporate adj. 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." "A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold."

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Etymology of 'Incorporate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incorporate" Quotes from Famous Books

... Haggard found, while writing his chapter, that Mr. Burnham had already told the story in an 'Interview' published by the Westminster Gazette. The courtesy of the proprietor of that journal, and of Mr. Burnham, has permitted Mr. Haggard to incorporate the already printed narrative ...

— The Red True Story Book • Various

... been made in the knowledge of the causes of disease; and preventive methods of treatment by regulation of diet and habits of life are much better understood. To incorporate some reference to these in a work dealing with health generally, appeared to us absolutely necessary. For these additions also the ...

— Papers on Health • John Kirk

... unimportant feature in the earlier examples of Printers' Marks, but it must suffice us here to indicate a few of the leading printers who used either one or the other, and sometimes both. B.Rembolt was one of the earliest to incorporate a Greek phrase; De Salenson, Ghent, had a Greco-Latin motto on an open bible, which is the pice de resistance of a pretty Mark, asimilar idea occurring in the totally different Marks of the brothers Treschel, Lyons; ...

— Printers' Marks - A Chapter in the History of Typography • William Roberts

... deft-nursed seed That sprang up by the wayside 'neath the foot Of the enemy, this breaks all into blaze, Spreads itself, one wide glory of desire To incorporate the whole great sun it loves From the inch-height whence ...

— Essays on Russian Novelists • William Lyon Phelps

... book stand as it was. I believe, therefore, that I am carrying out his wishes in reprinting the present edition from the original plates. I have found, however, among his papers three entirely new passages, which he probably wrote during the period of correction and no doubt intended to incorporate into the revised edition. Mr. Henry Festing Jones has also given me a copy of a passage which Butler wrote and gummed into Mr. Jones's copy of "Life and Habit." These four passages I have printed as an appendix at the end of ...

— Life and Habit • Samuel Butler

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