• (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)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend

   Incorporate air into the mixture.

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, 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.

7. 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

1. (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

2. 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.

3. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.

   an incorporate banking association