incorporate
Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation
    • (RP) IPA: /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/
    • (America) enPR: ĭnkôr'pərāt, IPA: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/, /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹeɪt/
    • (Canada) IPA: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.e(ɪ)t/, /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹe(ɪ)t/
    • (RP) IPA: /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/
    • (America) enPR: ĭnkôr'pərət, IPA: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.ət/
    • (Canada) IPA: /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.ət/
Verb

incorporate (incorporates, present participle incorporating; simple past and past participle incorporated)

  1. (transitive) To include (something) as a part.
    Synonyms: Thesaurus:integrate
    The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
    to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
    • 1716 March 6 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 19. Friday, February 24. [1716.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC ↗:
      The Romans […] did not subdue a country in order to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.
  2. (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
    Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking.
  3. (transitive) To admit as a member of a company
  4. (transitive) To form into a legal company.
    The company was incorporated in 1980.
  5. (US, legal) 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.
    • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act II, scene vi]:
      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.
    • 1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome:
      do not deny , that there was such an Opinion among the Heathens , that Spirits might possess Images , and be incorporated with them
Translations Translations Translations Translations Adjective

incorporate

  1. (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
    • c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:
      As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate.
    • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC ↗:
      a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
    • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC ↗, Canto II:
      And gazing on thee, sullen tree,
      ⁠Sick for thy stubborn hardihood,
      ⁠I seem to fail from out my blood
      And grow incorporate into thee.
Etymology 2

From .

Pronunciation
  • (Canada) IPA: /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚət/
  • (RP) IPA: /ɪŋˈkɔː(ɹ).pəɹ.ət/
  • (America) enPR: ĭnkôr'pərət, IPA: /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚət/
Adjective

incorporate (not comparable)

  1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
    • 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC ↗, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
      Moses forbore to speak of angels, and of things invisible, and incorporate.
    • 1905, Leonid Andreyev, translated by Alexandra Linden, The Red Laugh: Fragments of a Discovered Manuscript:
      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
Antonyms


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