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INCOR'PORATE, a. [in and corporate.]

1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body. [Little used.]

2. Mixed; united in one body; associated.

INCOR'PORATE, v.t. [L. incorporo; in and corpus, a body.]

1. In pharmacy, to mix different ingredients in one mass or body; to reduce dry substances to the consistence of paste by the admixture of a fluid, as in making pills, &c.

2. To mix and embody one substance in another; as, to incorporate copper with silver.

3. To unite; to blend; to work into another mass or body; as, to incorporate plagiarisms into one's own composition.

4. To unite; to associate in another government or empire. The Romans incorporated conquered countries into their government.

5. To embody; to give a material form to.

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

6. To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute a body, composed of one or more individuals,with the quality of perpetual existence or succession, unless limited by the act of incorporation; as, to incorporate the inhabitants of a city, town or parish; to incorporate the proprietors of a bridge, the stockholders of a bank, of an insurance company, &c. New Haven was incorporated in January 1784; Hartford in May 1784.

INCOR'PORATE, v.i. To unite so as to make a part of another body; to be mixed or blended; to grow into, &c.; usually followed by with.

Painters' colors and ashes do better incorporate with oil.

1913 Definition

Incorporate (incorporate)

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In*cor"po*rate

[L. incorporatus. See In- not, and Corporate.]

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.

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

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.

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.

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. Bp. Stillingfleet.

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. Addison.

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.

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.

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