1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xi. 613 To thende the members of our common countrey might at last be reincorporate into one common body [Fr. vint à s'vnir en vn corps commun; It. si vnisse in vn corpo comune].

1606 B. Barnes Foure Bks. Offices ii. 78 The roote of that ancient Brittaine stocke, including England, Scotland, and Wales, by times continuance reincorporate, and flourishing out againe in one fruitfull tree.

1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. Mark ix. 11 John Baptist was Elias; not the Soul of Elias reincorporate, but [etc.].

a1600 J. Craig Mother & Child (1611) sig. H13 I may rouse vp my spirits in the knowledge of that sacred mysterie, whereby wee are reincorporated with thee, and admitted againe to thy couenant.

1663 R. Boyle Some Considerations Usefulnesse Exper. Nat. Philos. ii. App. 338 Grind it well again, that..the Sal Armoniack..may be reincorporated with the Colcothar.

1723 London Gaz. No. 6152/1 Those Provinces ought..to be deemed reincorporated with the Ottoman Empire.

1774 Westm. Mag. 2 327 The King has been pleased..to reincorporate the borough of Saltash.

1777 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 67 62 All seemed to be re-incorporated into the mass.

1825 in Times (1826) 21 Jan. 2/2 The Congress, in the name of the people, whom it represents, acknowledges it as de facto reincorporated with the republic of the United Provinces of the Rio de la Plata.

1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) V. 72 The ‘priory and convent of Norwich’..were reincorporated only with a loss of manors and lands.

1905 N.Y. Times 10 July 7/1 ‘The de-mutualization of the N.E.A.’, was the expression employed yesterday by Miss Margaret A. Haley, business manager of the Chicago Federation of Teachers, to define the proposed process of reincorporating the National Educational Association.

1955 Pacific Hist. Rev. 24 108 What once was the Committee for Free Asia has reincorporated as the Asia Foundation.

2004 T. C. Bestor Tsukiji iii. 118 Private businesses that had operated in the marketplace before the wartime mobilization reincorporated themselves.

1654 J. Ellistone & J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Mysterium Magnum lxv. 485 The re-incorporated Eve in the Covenant of Grace.

1874 L. Bacon Genesis New Eng. Church xiii. 280 It was best for them to plant their colony there, and to negotiate afterward for a patent from the reincorporated Plymouth Council.

1994 Social Text No. 39. 7 They not only would be the ones to run things in a reincorporated Romanian Moldova but also would get the historical credit for reuniting the nation.