English Dictionary: incorporate | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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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. |