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incorporate¹

  • /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹeɪt/ UK
  • /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/ US
  • /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹeɪt/ US
  • /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.e(ɪ)t/ Canada
  • /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɹe(ɪ)t/ Canada
  • /ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/ UK
  • /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.ət/ US
  • /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.ət/ Canada

Where it comes from

From Middle English, from Late Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus, corporis (“body”).

verb incorporates · incorporating · incorporated

  1. transitive To include (something) as a part. The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
  2. transitive To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking.
  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 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. 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. do not deny , that there was such an Opinion among the Heathens , that Spirits might possess Images , and be incorporated with them

adjective more incorporate · most incorporate

  1. obsolete Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied. As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate.

incorporate²

  • /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚət/ Canada
  • /ɪŋˈkɔː(ɹ).pəɹ.ət/ UK
  • /ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚət/ US

Where it comes from

From in- (“not”) + corporate.

adjective

  1. not comparable Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. Moses forbore to speak of angels, and of things invisible, and incorporate.
  2. not comparable Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation. an incorporate banking association

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