Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA: /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚe(ɪ)t/
- (RP) IPA: /ɪŋˈkɔː(ɹ).pəɹ.eɪt/
- (America) enPR: ĭnkôr'pərāt, IPA: /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚeɪt/
incorporate (incorporates, present participle incorporating; past and past participle incorporated)
- (transitive) To include (something) as a part.
- The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
- to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
- February 24, 1716, Joseph Addison, The Freeloader No. 19
- 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.
- (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
- Incorporate air into the mixture.
- (transitive) To admit as a member of a company
- (transitive) To form into a legal company.
- The company was incorporated in 1980.
- (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).
- To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
- c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene vi]:
- 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 worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.
- French: incorporer
- German: enthalten, beinhalten, hinzufügen
- Italian: incorporare
- Portuguese: incorporar
- Russian: включа́ть
- Spanish: incorporar
- French: incorporer
- German: einbinden, inkorporieren, integrieren
- Portuguese: incorporar
- Russian: сме́шивать
- Portuguese: incorporar
- Russian: принима́ть
- German: gründen, einverleiben
- Portuguese: incorporar
incorporate
- (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
- c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene ii]:
- As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate.
- 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
- a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
- Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
- Moses forbore to speak of angels, and things invisible, and incorporate.
- 1905, Leonid Andreyev, trans. 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.
- Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
- an incorporate banking association
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