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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

... when it ascends on high it is born in the air or spirit and is changed into a spirit, and becomes a life with life. And by such an operation the body becomes of a subtile nature and the spirit is incorporated with the body, and made one with it, and by such a sublimation, conjunction and raising up, the whole, body and spirit, is made ...

— Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts • Herbert Silberer

... mountains could be conquered by a portage road, it was a natural step to plan the Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio railroads on a system of easy grades, so that all obstacles of height and distance were annihilated. The Pennsylvania Railroad was incorporated April 13, 1846, and completed its roadway from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh February 15, 1854. The canal was for a time operated by the Pennsylvania Canal Company in the interest of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, but ...

— A Short History of Pittsburgh • Samuel Harden Church

... to those accursed combinations down there, they were at work, too. While I was dreaming and doing these things, Brokaw and the others had formed the Great Northern Fish and Development Company, had incorporated it under the laws of New Jersey, and had already sold over a million dollars' worth of stock! The thing was in full swing when I reached headquarters. I had authorized Brokaw to act for me, and I found that I was vice-president of one of the biggest legalized ...

— Flower of the North • James Oliver Curwood

... upon it; the succulent moisture therefrom passes through a tube, and yields a liquid similar in colour to coffee, and of a violent purgative quality. It remains in this state about twenty-four hours, and is then incorporated with a quantity of the ashes of rice-straw, which excites a bubbling fermentation like boiling water, after which it becomes fit for use. In forty-eight hours it returns again to its purgative state, which interval is employed ...

— Observations Upon The Windward Coast Of Africa • Joseph Corry

... foreign idlers as native ones. In this matter also, the influence of our institutions is found to be powerful enough to nip all such tendencies in the bud. Note, above all, that the strongest ambition of the immigrant is to become like us, to become incorporated with us; in order to this, if he is healthy and strong, he must participate in our affairs. They understand human nature very imperfectly who think that proletarians in whom there lingers a trace of human dignity would, when they have an opportunity ...

— Freeland - A Social Anticipation • Theodor Hertzka

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