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

• • (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/

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

• French: incorporer
• German: enthalten, beinhalten, hinzufügen
• Italian: incorporare, integrare
• Portuguese: incorporar
• Russian: включа́ть
• Spanish: incorporar

• French: incorporer
• German: einbinden, inkorporieren, integrieren
• Italian: inglobare, introdurre
• Portuguese: incorporar
• Russian: сме́шивать
• Spanish: añadir

• Italian: inserire
• Portuguese: incorporar
• Russian: принима́ть
• Spanish: incorporar, admitir

• German: gründen, einverleiben
• Portuguese: incorporar
• Spanish: legalizar, constituir

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.

From .

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

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

• corporate, corporeal