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/ɪnkˈɔrpərˌeɪtəd/ /ɪnkˈɔrpərˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

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

1.

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."

2.

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."

3.

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

4.

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."

5.

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

Incorporated adj.

1.

United or combined together to form in one body.

2.

Formed into a corporation and registered with a government body as such; made a legal entity.

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Etymology of 'Incorporated'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incorporated" Quotes from Famous Books

... books are multiplied; and from this arbitrary representation of sounds by letters, proceeds that diversity of spelling observable in the Saxon remains, and I suppose in the first books of every nation, which perplexes or destroys analogy, and produces anomalous formations, that, being once incorporated, can never be ...

— Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language • Samuel Johnson

... government Vladimir, was then called Red Russia, was added by inheritance. Lithuania became connected with Poland as a Polish fief in the year 1386. when queen Hedevig, heiress of the crown of Poland, married Jagello, duke of Lithuania; but was first completely incorporated as a component part of the kingdom of Poland only so late as the year 1569. Masovia had been thus united some forty years earlier. At the time of the marriage of Hedevig and Jagello, the latter caused himself to be baptized, and ...

— Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic - Nations • Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob Robinson

... of, and how it had all come of Maggie's achieved hour, under Mr. Crichton's protection, at the Museum. He had desired, Mr. Crichton, with characteristic kindness, after the wonderful show, after offered luncheon at his incorporated lodge hard by, to see her safely home; especially on his noting, in attending her to the great steps, that she had dismissed her carriage; which she had done, really, just for the harmless amusement of taking her way alone. She had known she should find herself, as the consequence of such an hour, ...

— The Golden Bowl • Henry James

... place is a mixture of old Rome and of the French eighteenth century; for the remains of the antique baths are in a measure incorporated in the modern fountains. In a corner of this umbrageous precinct stands a small Roman ruin, which is known as a temple of Diana, but was more apparently a nymphaeum, and appears to have had a graceful connection with the adjacent ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 • Various

... the greatest proportion of profit to their locality, or to the real or imaginary union of persons and corporations which is now called a nation. What we now call a nation is a body whose function it is to assert the special welfare of its incorporated members at the expense of all other similar bodies: the death of competition will deprive it of this function; since there will be no attack there need be no defence, and it seems to me that this function being taken away from the nation it can have no other, and therefore ...

— Signs of Change • William Morris

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