incorporate
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Late Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”).
Pronunciation
- (Canada) IPA(key): /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚe(ɪ)t/
Audio (CA) (file)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɪŋˈkɔː(ɹ).pəɹ.eɪt/
- (US) enPR: ĭnkôr'pərāt, IPA(key): /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚeɪt/
Verb
incorporate (third-person singular simple present incorporates, present participle incorporating, simple 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
- Addison
- The Romans did not subdue a country 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, law) 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.
- Shakespeare
- By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.
- Shakespeare
- To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
- Bishop Stillingfleet
- The idolaters, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.
- Bishop Stillingfleet
Derived terms
Translations
include as a part or ingredient
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mix, blend
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admit as a member of a company
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form into a legal company
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Adjective
incorporate (comparative more incorporate, superlative most incorporate)
- (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
- Shakespeare
- As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate.
- Francis Bacon
- a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
- Shakespeare
- Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- 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.
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
- an incorporate banking association
Italian
Verb
incorporate
- second-person plural present indicative of incorporare
- second-person plural imperative of incorporare
- feminine plural of incorporato
Latin
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