incorporate 1
— incorporation , n. — incorporative , adj.
v. /in kawr"peuh rayt'/ ; adj. /in kawr"peuhr it, -prit/ , v. , incorporated, incorporating , adj.
v.t.
1. to form into a legal corporation.
2. to put or introduce into a body or mass as an integral part or parts: to incorporate revisions into a text.
3. to take in or include as a part or parts, as the body or a mass does: His book incorporates his earlier essay.
4. to form or combine into one body or uniform substance, as ingredients.
5. to embody: His book incorporates all his thinking on the subject.
6. to form into a society or organization.
v.i.
7. to form a legal corporation.
8. to unite or combine so as to form one body.
adj.
9. legally incorporated, as a company.
10. combined into one body, mass, or substance.
11. Archaic. embodied.
[ 1350-1400; ME incorporatus ptp. of incorporare to embody, incarnate. See IN- 2 , CORPORATE ]
Syn. 4. embody, assimilate.
incorporate 2
/in kawr"peuhr it, -prit/ , adj. Archaic.
not embodied; incorporeal.
[ 1525-35; incorporatus not embodied. See IN- 3 , CORPORATE ]