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inˈcorporated, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. United into one body; combined.
1599Minsheu Sp. Dict., Incorporado, incorporated, made into one body. 1712Blackmore Creation 298 Now flows in one incorporated flood. 1806Hutton Course Math. I. 174 To obtain the incorporated or united mass.
2. Constituted as a legal or formal corporation (cf. incorporate ppl. a. 2).
1677A. Yarranton Eng. Improv. 182 The Incorporated Companies of Weavers, Pin-Makers [etc.]. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. x. ii. (1869) I. 137 In many large incorporated towns no tolerable workmen are to be found. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. App. 335 There were about 20 incorporated academies in the State [of Vermont], where young men were fitted for college. 1884H. Spencer in Contemp. Rev. XLVI. 29 This holds of an incorporated nation as much as of an incorporated company.
3. Included as part of a whole.
1715Nelson Addr. Pers. Qual. 197 An incorporated Member of His Body. 1818Jas. Mill Brit. India II. v. ix. 714 The government of India was made totally dependant upon the minister, and became in fact an incorporated part of his administration.
†4. Embodied. Obs. rare.
1644Digby Mans Soul (1645) 11 An incorporated soule..can looke upon but one single definite place. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 110 ⁋5 Incorporated minds will always feel some inclination towards exterior acts, and ritual observances.
Hence inˈcorporatedness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Incorporatedness, the State or Condition of being incorporated, or the unitedness of one Thing with another. |