incorporateadj.1
/ɪnˈkɔːpərət/ Formerly used as past participle = incorporated.
I. United by incorporation.
1.
a. United in one body; combined in one mass or substance. literal and figurative. Now rare.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or fact of uniting or being united > [adjective] > in one body or mass
concorporate?a1475
incorporatea1533
incorporated1599
corporate1850
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) f. xv And the vertues wel incorporate, nourishe many enuious.
1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Diiij Her armes do lend his necke a sweet imbrace, Incorporate then they seeme, face growes to face. View more context for this quotation
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxxxv. 17 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 228 The reaking vapors rise: Then high in cloudes incorporate they stand.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xii. 243 Alwaies turning and stirring the mettall, to the end it may be well incorporate.
1752 E. Young Brothers iv. i The friend of Rome?—That severs you for ever; Tho' most incorporate and strongly knit.
1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 2 The incorporate life of father and son.
b. Const. into, in, with, †to. (Cf. the verb.)
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 329 Hibernia..was of olde tyme incorporat [Harl. MS. concorporate, L. concorporata] in to þe lordschippe of Bretayne, so seiþ Giraldus.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS) x. v Leye [flame] fondeþ to meue upwarde, and draweþ fro þe neþer parties upwarde to þe whiche he is incorporate.
1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) i. iv. sig. d v Incorporat & vnyed with holy chirche.
a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. Clxxxviv To be incorporate in hym, as one of the membres of his misticall body.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iii. sig. Liijv Oyntementes..made of ye powdre of dragons blode,..encorporate with whyte of an egge.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. iii. 134 It is Caska, one incorporate To our Attempts. View more context for this quotation
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §411 Drinke incorporate with Flesh, or Roots..will nourish more easily, than Meat and Drinke taken seuerally.
1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. ii. 192 This science is incorporate in all the books of the doctors of the church.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam ii. 2 Gazing on the sullen tree..I seem to fail from out my blood, And grow incorporate into thee. View more context for this quotation
a1864 J. D. Burns Mem. & Rem. (1879) 363 Some beloved object which seemed to be one and incorporate with their living selves.
2. † b. Of persons: Associated or admitted to fellowship with others, as members of the same corporation. Obsolete.† c. transferred. That constitutes a close connection (cf. incorporating adj. b). Obsolete.
a. Of a company, association, etc.: Formally constituted as a corporation. (Cf. corporate adj. 1) Also of persons: United in a corporation.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [adjective] > relating to a corporation or body corporate > incorporated
incorporate1480
incorporated1677
Inc.1902
1480 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 58 Whan so euer the colage of prestis of Bury be incorporat and have a maister, presydent, or other reuler [etc.].
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 42 All personnes of the said company nowe incorporate by this present acte.
1592 W. West Symbolæogr.: 1st Pt. i. §46 Guildes, fraternities, fellowships and companies incorporate.
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia i. vi. 43 Conducted to the next incorporate Towne.
1671 R. McWard True Non-conformist 11 I finde the keeping of the Lords Covenant..injoined to the People of Israel, as one body incorporat.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. ix. 730 The province of the incorporate municipal governments.
1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 64 An incorporate company, having its principal place of business at the town of Gold Run.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > [adjective] > admitted as member
incorporate1614
adopted1618
joined1849
1614 W. Camden Remaines (rev. ed.) 17 The Welshmen our neighbours, or rather our incorporate countrimen, both by approoued allegeance and law.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. ii. 125 Estranged from thy selfe..being strange to me: That vndiuidable Incorporate Am better then thy deere selfes better part. View more context for this quotation
1684 R. Baxter Short Answer in Whether Parish Congregations be True Christian Churches ii. 2 You make your self and all these parties, incorporate Members of the Church of England.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > [adjective] > related or connected > closely related
speciala1398
sib?1507
affined1586
cousin1590
affine1614
incorporatea1616
vehementa1626
intimate1692
affinitive1745
affiliate1800
affinal1834
proximate1985
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) v. ii. 361 To make diuorce of their incorporate League. View more context for this quotation
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 98 (note) In such an incorporate union (which is well distinguished by a very learned prelate from a foederate alliance)..the two contracting states are totally annihilated..and a third arises from their conjunction.
II. Having a bodily form.
3. Having a bodily form; embodied.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [adjective] > concrete > embodied
incorporate1398
incarnate?1533
incorporated1644
bodied1647
vehicular1652
embodied1665
vehiculateda1692
incarnated1872
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) x. vii Colle is fuyre incorporat in deede.
1530 Myroure Oure Ladye (Fawkes) (1873) iii. 298 The beynge worde of the hiest hathe suffered to be incorporate, takynge a body.
1878 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 170 Ideals never yet incorporate.
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incorporateadj.2n.
rare.† B. n.
A. adj.2
1. Without body or material substance; incorporeal, unembodied.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective]
bodilessa1398
matterlessa1398
unmateriala1398
unbodily1398
immaterialc1450
metaphysic1528
incorporeal1532
incorporate1540
incorporal1551
uncorporal1567
metaphysical1577
unphysical1593
limbless1594
corpseless1596
unbodied1609
immateriate1626
incorporeous1638
uncarnate1646
unmattered1647
incorporificated1651
unembodied1662
unessential1667
inessential1677
unelementarya1706
unelementateda1706
unincarnate1709
immechanical1715
asomatous1731
unincorporate1821
unfleshly1834
ethereal1836
non-material1847
non-physical1856
unincarnated1859
discorporate1888
transubstantial1892
1540 R. Morison tr. J. L. Vives Introd. Wysedome (new ed.) G j b The more thou transposeste thy selfe from thinges corporall unto thinges incorporate, the more godlye lyfe shalte thou leade.
1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man iv. 353 For besides the incorporate world, that is aboue all the rest..there are three bodily worldes coupled together.
1661 G. Rust Let. conc. Origen in Phœnix (1721) I. 31 And so there be brought into light Spirits incorporate.
a1693 Disc. Tenures in J. Gutch Collectanea Curiosa (1781) I. 79 Inheritance incorporate, or invisible.
a1849 E. A. Poe Silence There are some qualities—some incorporate things, That have a double life.
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2. ‘Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as an incorporate banking association or other society’ (Webster, 1864).Hence in later dictionaries, but probably an error.
Something which is incorporeal. Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing
spiritual1495
incorporate?1533
immateriality1648
insensible1656
incorporal1678
incorporeity1743
imponderable1855
intangible1914
non-object1914
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Cciii In the whiche all maner shape and effigiation doth shyne clerely so well corporates as incorporates.
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incorporatev.
/ɪnˈkɔːpəreɪt/ I. transitive.
1. To combine or unite into one body or uniform substance; to mix or blend thoroughly together (a number of different things or one thing with another).
a. material substances.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or fact of uniting or being united > unite [verb (transitive)] > in one mass or body
corporatea1398
corpore1398
incorporate1544
concorporate1552
concert1598
accorporate1623
corporify1667
1544 T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1553) F j b Take..tosted bread, and moist it in wine and incorporate it with pouder of mastyke.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Proem 11 A melted Cement, made of Pitch, Rosin, and Wood-ashes, well incorporated.
1678 Philos. Trans. 1677 (Royal Soc.) 12 950 Tinn, for the most part, is incorporated with the Stone, or is found in it.
1777 J. Cook Jrnl. 4 Sept. (1967) III. i. 207 Three or four men kept stiring the whole with sticks, till the several articles were incorporated.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. i. xii. §2. 213 Manure..carefully mixed and incorporated with the soil.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 71/1 Equal parts of oat, wheat, barley, and bean meals, and the whole..incorporated by stirring.
b. transferred and figurative.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > combine [verb (transitive)] > immaterial things
join1340
combine1529
conjoin1588
incorporate1599
to run up1859
elide1952
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. v. 37 You shall not stay alone, Till holy Church incorporate two in one. View more context for this quotation
1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 35 That the fit union of their souls be such as may even incorporate them to love and amity.
1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels 185 Incorporate your selves with that which is good, make your self one with it.
a1681 J. Lacy Sr. Hercules Buffoon i, in Dramatic Wks. (1875) 225 An Atheist and a Wit are incorporated, and like man and wife become one flesh.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 242 That which incorporates their being for ever and ever.
1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §8. 27 At what period, they were incorporated into a Sacred Canon, is..unknown.
1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. vi. 97 When the geological vocabulary shall have become better incorporated than at present with the language of our common literature.
2. † c. To take or absorb into the body. Obsolete. rare.
a. To put into or include in the body or substance of something else; to put (one thing) in or into another so as to form one body or integral whole; to embody, include. Const. in, into, †to.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > incorporate or include [verb (transitive)] > cause to be included
incorporate1495
contain1548
couch1548
embodya1616
work1711
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. xix. sig. II.iij/2 Clerenesse Incorporatyd [a1398 BL Add. incorporate] in that blacke makith it meene and temporat.
1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 234 This breade and this cuppe..shall assure you, that you are truely incorporated into my bodie.
1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 533 As though they wold incorporate their soule to their bodie.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 365 Some there be who incorporat the said head [of a swallow] within white wax, and therewith annoint the forehead.
1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) I. i. i. 34 The religion of that age was not merely allied to the state: it was incorporated into it.
1843 J. Clason Serm. vii. 126 We eat and drink—what is taken by us enters into and is incorporated in our systems.
1876 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (1877) i. 5 What are the doctrines which the Roman Church will thus incorporate into her teaching?
b. To take in or include as a part or parts of itself (esp. of literary material); to absorb.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > incorporation or inclusion > incorporate or include [verb (transitive)]
beclipc1230
beshut1340
contain1340
comprehendc1374
continue1377
begripe1393
close1393
incorpor1398
conceive?c1400
includec1475
engrossa1500
complect1523
conclude?1523
employ1528
to take in1534
retain1577
surmise1578
imprehend1590
immerse1605
comprise1651
involve1651
complexa1657
embrace1697
incorporate1824
embody1847
cover1868
1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 538 The best edition, incorporating all the works of the author.
1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church (1869) viii. 271 The Koran incorporates some of the earlier Jewish, Christian, and Arabian traditions.
1890 Law Times Rep. 63 732/1 The Act of 1885 expressly incorporated sect. 28 of the Act of 1878.
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the world > life > biology > biological processes > absorption or assimilation (of a substance, etc.) > absorb or assimilate ( a substance, etc.) [verb (transitive)]
attract1545
assimilate1578
incorporate1653
introsume1657
insume1676
incept1863
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler vi. 139 By the wormes remaining in that box an hour..they had incorporated a kind of smel that was irresistibly attractive. View more context for this quotation
3.
a. To combine or form into a society or organization; esp. to constitute as a legal corporation.
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > types of association, society, or organization > [verb (transitive)] > combine into a corporation
incorporatec1460
corporate1461
c1460 J. Fortescue Governance of Eng. (1885) ii. 111 Whan Nembroth..made and incorperate the first realme.
1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. 1348/2 Christ..doth..incorporate all christen folke and hys owne bodye to gether in one corporacyon mistical.
1540 Act 32 Hen. VIII c. 42 Whiche company of Barbours be incorporated to sue and be sued by the name of Maistres or Governours of the mistery and commynaltie of the Barbours of London.
1693 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) III. 176 A charter is past to incorporate the lord Shandois, Mr. Neal, and Mr. Thomas Wharton, in working of mines, and refining of oare, &c.
1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 87 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. It is propos'd that the two Theatres be incorporated into one Company.
1890 C. Gross Gild Merchant I. 146 The staplers of a town were generally incorporated as a company or fraternity.
b. To admit (a person) as member of a company or association; to receive or adopt into a corporation or body politic. spec. To admit a graduate of another university ad eundem. (Const. into, in, rarely †unto, with.)
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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > [verb (transitive)] > admit as member
incorporate1530
adopt1538
enrol1623
aggregate1651
associate1806
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 590/2 I incorporate a man, I make him of crafte or faculte to be sworne to it.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 78 Hee had incorporated himselfe vnto another people.
1649 A. Ross Life Mahomet in tr. Alcoran 401 Giving freedom to such prisoners as would embrace his Law, [he] encorporated them into his Army.
1679 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 465 I heard at Weston that the vice-chancellor of Oxford and Dr. Fell, has denied Oates his incorporating D.D... Oats sent word to the vice-chancellor that ‘he would come and wait on him..for his degree’. But they denied him—that is, if he was Doctor of Divinity at Salamanca they would incorporate him.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 688 This year Richard Crashaw of Cambridge was incorporated.
1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 21 Mar. (O.H.S.) II. 1 Yesterday was incorporated A.M. Mr. Stevens.
1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 295 The Indians given to Spaniards, should be set free, and incorporated in the Crown.
1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church (1869) xi. 336 He made a point of compelling all foreigners to..incorporate themselves into the Russian nation by baptism.
4. To furnish with a body; to give bodily shape to; to embody. rare.
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the world > life > the body > [verb (transitive)]
incarnate1533
rebody1614
incorporate1623
incarn1882
the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > give substance to [verb (transitive)] > embody
corporatea1398
bodyc1449
embody1548
incorporate1623
substantiate1645
bodify1685
to body forth1759
to body out1826
encarnalize1847
insubstantiate1865
1623 L. Andrewes Serm. (ed. 18) 269 The incorporating Christ, the ordaining Him a body.
a1688 R. Cudworth Treat. Eternal & Immutable Morality (1731) iv. i. 145 Certain crasse, palpable, and Corporeal Images, to incorporate those abstracted Cogitations in.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. v. 49/2 Some actual Air-maiden, incorporated into tangibility and reality.
II. intransitive. To incorporate itself or become incorporated.
5. Of one thing: To unite or combine with something else so as to form one body. Const. with, rarely into.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or fact of uniting or being united > unite [verb (intransitive)] > into one mass or body > with something else
incorporate1594
1594 H. Plat Diuerse Sorts of Soyle 6 in Jewell House Salt..by solution being very apt to incorporate therewith, consumeth all the putrified vapors or parts thereof.
1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xxvi. 452 Grace can no more incorporate with sin, than oyle with water.
1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 22 He must have mastered his Notions, till they even incorporate into his Mind.
1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. vii. 137 In three or four weeks time the bud will incorporate.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas II. vi. i. 416 A rivulet..meandering..to incorporate with the waters of Guadalaviar.
1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic vi. 150 The water will gradually incorporate with the syrup.
6. † b. To copulate. Obsolete. rare.
a. Of two or more things: To unite so as to form one body; to grow into each other; to form an intimate union (literal and figurative). ? Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being combined > combine [verb (intransitive)] > coalesce
runOE
incorpora1618
incorporate1625
coalesce1652
coalize1697
symphytize1871
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 16 Truth and Falshood..are like the Iron and Clay, in the toes of Nabucadnezars Image; They may Cleaue, but they will not Incorporate.
1675 N. Grew Disc. conc. Mixture v. 93 Take good Oyl of Vitriol, and drop it upon Oyl of Anise-seeds; and they will forthwith incorporate together.
1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. iii. iii. 163 They unite and incorporate into families, clubs, parties, and commonwealths by mutual Sympathy.
1797 J. Downing Treat. Disorders Horned Cattle 32 Beat them with a spoon until they incorporate and become a white paste.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse
playOE
to do (also work) one's kindc1225
bedc1315
couple1362
gendera1382
to go togetherc1390
to come togethera1398
meddlea1398
felterc1400
companya1425
swivec1440
japea1450
mellc1450
to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474
engender1483
fuck?a1513
conversec1540
jostlec1540
confederate1557
coeate1576
jumble1582
mate1589
do1594
conjoin1597
grind1598
consortc1600
pair1603
to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608
commix1610
cock1611
nibble1611
wap1611
bolstera1616
incorporate1622
truck1622
subagitate1623
occupya1626
minglec1630
copulate1632
fere1632
rut1637
joust1639
fanfreluche1653
carnalize1703
screw1725
pump1730
correspond1756
shag1770
hump1785
conjugate1790
diddle1879
to get some1889
fuckeec1890
jig-a-jig1896
perform1902
rabbit1919
jazz1920
sex1921
root1922
yentz1923
to make love1927
rock1931
mollock1932
to make (beautiful) music (together)1936
sleep1936
bang1937
lumber1938
to hop into bed (with)1951
to make out1951
ball1955
score1960
trick1965
to have it away1966
to roll in the hay1966
to get down1967
poontang1968
pork1968
shtup1969
shack1976
bonk1984
boink1985
1622 T. Dekker & P. Massinger Virgin Martir iii. sig. G4v Worse then the noyse of a scolding oyster wench, or two Cats incorporating.
Draft additions 1993
7. Commerce. To form or become constituted as a legal corporation.
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society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > run a business [verb (intransitive)] > become legal corporation
incorporate1955
1955 Jrnl. Accountancy May 53/2 An organization which wishes to be taxed as a corporation should be advised to incorporate.
1960 I. Wallach Absence of Cello 6 I was going to say that your failure to incorporate was your master-stroke. Of course, you know that this leaves you both with personal liability for your debts.
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 31 Aug. 2/4 (advt.) Professional people: are you planning to incorporate?
1991 Music Paper Mar. 29/1 A determination will have to be made by the interested parties as to whether or not it is financially viable..to incorporate.
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