incorporate

From Middle English [Term?], from Late Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”).

• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚe(ɪ)t/

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• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪŋˈkɔː(ɹ).pəɹ.eɪt/
• (US) enPR: ĭnkôr'pərāt, IPA^(key): /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚeɪt/

incorporate (third-person singular simple present incorporates, present participle incorporating, simple past and past participle incorporated)

1. (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.

2. (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend

   Incorporate air into the mixture.

3. (transitive) To admit as a member of a company
4. (transitive) To form into a legal company.

   The company was incorporated in 1980.

5. (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).
6. 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.

7. 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.

• incorporated

incorporate (comparative more incorporate, superlative most incorporate)

1. (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

2. 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.

3. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.

   an incorporate banking association

• procreation

incorporate

1. second-person plural present indicative of incorporare
2. second-person plural imperative of incorporare
3. feminine plural of incorporato

• crepitarono
• patrocinerò
• portoricane

incorporāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of incorporō