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verb

Incorporate v. t. (past & past part. incorporated; pres. part. incorporating)

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."

To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody. "The idolaters, who worshiped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein."

To unite with, or introduce into, a mass already formed; as, to incorporate copper with silver; used with with and into.

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."

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.

Incorporate 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." "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."

adjective

Incorporate adj.

Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. "Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate."

Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association.

Incorporate adj. 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." "A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold."

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Etymology of 'Incorporate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incorporate" Quotes from Famous Books

... line on white paper. A normal ground, without treatment, is virtually transparent, making the etcher's lines rather difficult to see.[21] The most usual procedure, both in the 17th century and today, is to smoke the ground and incorporate the soot with the ground by heating the plate slightly. This gives a black ground, against which the lines appear light, the negative of the ultimate print. The black ground is favored, both out of long-established tradition ...

— Rembrandt's Etching Technique: An Example • Peter Morse

... country and dependency were wise enough to keep together, and that the sound policy to adopt was really the policy of closer union—of imperial federation, as we should now call it. He would not say, "Perish dependencies," but "Incorporate them." He would treat a colony as but a natural expansion of the territory of the kingdom, and have its inhabitants enjoy the same rights and bear the same burdens as other citizens. He did not think it wrong to tax the Colonies; on the contrary, he would make them pay every tax the inhabitants ...

— Life of Adam Smith • John Rae

... are suggested the misery and retribution of this unlikeness. 'If you will not make My thoughts your thoughts, I shall not take your ways as My ways. I will leave you to them.' 'You will be filled with the fruit of your own devices. I shall not incorporate your actions into My ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... he would accept the Spanish throne. Joseph had hesitated and was momentarily out of favor, while the perpetual smuggling of the Dutch had convinced Napoleon that the only means to secure the continental embargo was to incorporate Holland with France. Three days later Murat received still higher praise, with a perfectly irrelevant clause interjected: "I suppose Godoy will come by way of Bayonne." This was, of course, a hint to send the Prince of the Peace into France. If the commander of the French forces should ...

— The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte - Vol. III. (of IV.) • William Milligan Sloane

... is conserved. Observe his wadded and quilted frock, his trousers of similar goods tied about the ankle, with his feet clad in multiple socks and cloth shoes provided with thick felted soles. These types of dress, with the wadding, quilting, belting and tying, incorporate and confine as part of the effective material a large volume of air, thus securing without cost, much additional warmth without increasing the weight of the garments. Beneath these outer garments several under pieces of different weights ...

— Farmers of Forty Centuries - or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea and Japan • F. H. King

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