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Definition of Incorporate
1. Adjective. Formed or united into a whole.
2. Verb. Make into a whole or make part of a whole. "She incorporated his suggestions into her proposal"
Specialized synonyms: Fold, Reintegrate, Build In, Re-incorporate
Generic synonyms: Combine, Compound
Derivative terms: Incorporation, Incorporation, Integration, Integrative, Integrative
Antonyms: Disintegrate
3. Verb. Include or contain; have as a component. "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's"
4. Verb. Form a corporation.
5. Verb. Unite or merge with something already in existence. "Incorporate this document with those pertaining to the same case"
Definition of Incorporate
1. a. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
2. a. Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
3. v. t. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
4. v. i. To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; -- usually followed by with.
Definition of Incorporate
1. Verb. (transitive) To include (something) as a part. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To admit as a member of a company ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To form into a legal company. ¹
5. Verb. (legal) In United States constitutional law, to make the powers of the states be limited by the Bill of Rights ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incorporate
1. [v -RATED, -RATING, -RATES]
Medical Definition of Incorporate
1. 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." (Shak) 2. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody. "The idolaters, who worshiped their images as golds, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein." (Bp. Stillingfleet) 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." (Addison) 5. To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognised by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc. Origin: Incorporated; Incorporating. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incorporate
Literary usage of Incorporate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal by Kentucky General Assembly. Senate (1865)
"An act to incorporate the Old Dominion Petroleum and Mining Company. ... An act
to incorporate the Crow Creek and Cumberland River Oil and Mining Company. ..."
2. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate, United States Congress. Senate (1868)
"Mr. Palmer, from the committee on banks, to which was referred the bill entitled "An
act to incorporate the Prospect Park Savings Bank in Brooklyn," ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Who the swelling clouds in bladders ties, To mollify the stubborn clouds with
rain, And scatter'd dust incorporate again ? ..."
4. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1846)
"I" On an act to incorporate the Hudson Orphan and Relief Association, 523 for
the relief of Sarah Combs, 523 to amend the act to incorporate the ..."
5. United States Statutes at Large: Containing the Laws and Concurrent by United States (1868)
"An Art to amend an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate ... That section seventeen
of the "Act to incorporate the Metropolitan Railroad Company, ..."
6. The Dominion Annual Register and Review edited by Henry James Morgan (1884)
"... Company into one corporation, under the name of the Winnipeg and Hudson's Bay
Railway and Steamship Company ; 70. to incorporate the Quebec and James' ..."
7. Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science by Johns Hopkins University, Herbert Baxter Adams (1887)
"AUTHORITY TO incorporate. SECTION 1. The first charter incorporating Philadelphia
as a city was granted by the Proprietor, William Penn, in 1701, ..."
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