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Definition of Incorporative
1. Adjective. Growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories. "The Russian Empire was a typical incorporative state"
Definition of Incorporative
1. a. Incorporating or tending to incorporate; as, the incorporative languages (as of the Basques, North American Indians, etc. ) which run a whole phrase into one word.
Definition of Incorporative
1. Adjective. That serves to incorporate ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incorporative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incorporative
Literary usage of Incorporative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688 by John Hill Burton (1867)
"... ENGLAND—PECULIAR POLICY IN THE FORM OF HIS TRIAL HIS EXECUTION—ITS EFFECT ON
HIS COUNTRYMEN—ORGANISATION OF SCOTLAND—incorporative UNION—REPRESENTATIVES ..."
2. The Culture of Violence by Kumar Rupesinghe (1994)
"Should the agents of state fail in their incorporative power, this simultaneously
signs ... A failure in the hierarchical incorporative power of the state, ..."
3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1894)
"Such a sentence, whether it coalesces or not into one phonetic complex, is built
essentially on the incorporative plan, and it isa typical example of what ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1886)
"Many highly complex verbal forms seem to me to illustrate a close incorporative
tendency. Let us analyze for instance the word, ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"This type is called the incorporative or polysynthetic. ... G89 " The incorporative
type is not wholly peculiar to the languages of our continent. ..."
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