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▪ I. inˈcorporate, a. (n.) rare.
[ad. rare L. incorporāt-us not embodied (Claud. Mamertus, 470), f. in- (in-3) + corporātus corporate.]
1. Without body or material substance; incorporeal, unembodied.
1540Morysine Vives' Introd. Wysd. G j b, The more thou transposeste thy selfe from thinges corporall unto thinges incorporate, the more godlye lyfe shalte thou leade. 1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 366 For besides the incorporate world, that is above all the rest..there are three bodily worlds coupled together. a1618Raleigh in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 79 Inheritance incorporate, or invisible. 1661G. Rust Origen's Opin. in Phenix (1721) I. 31 And so there be brought into light Spirits incorporate. a1849Poe Silence, There are some qualities—some incorporate things, That have a double life.
¶2. ‘Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as an incorporate banking association or other society’ (Webster, 1864).
Hence in later Dicts., but prob. an error.
†B. as n. Something which is incorporeal. Obs.
c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 1057 In the whiche all maner shape and effigiation doth shyne clerely, so well corporates as incorporates.
▪ II. incorporate, ppl. a.|ɪnˈkɔːpərət|
[ad. late L. incorporāt-us, pa. pple. of incorporāre: see the vb.]
Formerly used as pa. pple. = incorporated.
I.
1. United in one body; combined in one mass or substance. lit. and fig. Now rare.
a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. xv, And the vertues wel incorporate, nourishe many enuious. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. David cxxxv. iii, The reaking vapors rise: Then high in cloudes incorporate they stand. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 540 Her armes do lend his necke a sweet imbrace, Incorporate then they seeme, face growes to face. 1604E.G. D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iv. xii. 243 Alwaies turning and stirring the mettall, to the end it may be well incorporate. 1752Young Brothers iv. i, The friend of Rome?—That severs you for ever; Tho' most incorporate and strongly knit. 1852H. Rogers Ecl. Faith (1853) 2 The incorporate life of father and son.
b. Const. into, in, with, † to. (Cf. the verb.)
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 329 Hibernia..was of olde tyme incorporat [Harl. MS. concorporate, L. concorporata] in to þe lordschippe of Bretayne, so seiþ Giraldus. 1398― Barth. De P.R. x. v. (Tollem. MS.), Leye [flame] fondeþ to meue upwarde, and draweþ fro þe neþer parties upwarde to þe whiche he is incorporate. 1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) i. iv. 40 Incorporat and unyed with holy chirche. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 186 b, To be incorporate in hym, as one of the membres of his misticall body. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg., Oyntementes..made of y⊇ powdre of dragons blode,..encorporate with whyte of an egge. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. iii. 135 It is Caska, one incorporate To our Attempts. 1626Bacon Sylva §411 Drinke incorporate with Flesh, or Roots..will nourish more easily, than Meat and Drinke taken seuerally. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. (1847) I. xi. §67. 139 This science is incorporate in all the books of the doctors of the church. 1850Tennyson In Mem. ii, Gazing on thee, sullen tree,..I seem to fail from out my blood And grow incorporate into thee. a1864J. D. Burns Mem. & Rem. (1879) 363 Some beloved object which seemed to be one and incorporate with their living selves.
2. Of a company, association, etc.: Formally constituted as a corporation. (Cf. corporate a. 4.) Also of persons: United in a corporation.
1480Bury Wills (Camden) 58 Whan so euer the colage of prestis of Bury be incorporat and have a maister, presydent, or other reuler [etc.]. 1540Act. 32 Hen. VIII, c. 42 All personnes of the said company nowe incorporate by this present acte. 1592West 1st Pt. Symbol. i. §46 Guildes, fraternities, fellowships and companies incorporate. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. vi. (1810) 78 Conducted to the next incorporate Towne. 1671True Non-conf. 11, I finde the keeping of the Lords Covenant..injoined to the People of Israel, as one body incorporat. 1863H. Cox Instit. iii. ix. 730 The province of the incorporate municipal governments. 1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 64 An incorporate company, having its principal place of business at the town of Gold Run.
†b. Of persons: Associated or admitted to fellowship with others, as members of the same corporation. Obs.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. ii. ii. 124 Estranged from thy selfe..being strange to me: That vndiuidable Incorporate Am better then thy deere selfes better part. 1605Camden Rem. (1637) 17 The Welshmen our neighbours, or rather our incorporate countrimen, both by approved allegeance and law. 1684Baxter Theol. Dial. 2 You make your self and all these parties, incorporate Members of the Church of England.
†c. transf. That constitutes a close connexion (cf. incorporating ppl. a. b). Obs.
1599Shakes. Hen. V, v. ii. 394 To make diuorce of their incorporate League. 1765Blackstone Comm. 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.
3. Having a bodily form; embodied.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. x. vii. (Bodl. MS.), Colle is fuyre incorporat in deede. 1450–1530Myrr. our Ladye 298 The beyng worde of the hiest hathe suffered to be incorporate, takynge a body. 1878Geo. Eliot Coll. Breakf. P. 424 Ideals never yet incorporate.
▪ III. incorporate, v.|ɪnˈkɔːpəreɪt|
Also 5 incorperate, 6–7 encorporate.
[f. late L. incorporāt-, ppl. stem of incorporāre to embody, include, f. in- (in-2) + corporāre to form into a body, corporate v.]
I. trans.
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.
1544T. Phaer Regim. Lyfe (1553) F j b, Take..tosted bread, and moist it in wine and incorporate it with pouder of mastyke. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. Proem 11 A melted Cement, made of Pitch, Rosin, and Wood-ashes, well incorporated. 1678Phil. Trans. XII. 950 Tinn, for the most part, is incorporated with the Stone, or is found in it. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) V. 1551 Stirring up the several ingredients, till they were perfectly incorporated. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. i. xii. §2 (1876) 110 Manure..carefully mixed and incorporated with the Soil. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 71/1 Equal parts of oat, wheat, barley, and bean meals, and the whole..incorporated by stirring.
b. transf. and fig.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. vi. 37 You shall not stay alone, Till holy Church incorporate two in one. 1643Milton Divorce ii. xvi, That the fit union of their souls be such as may even incorporate them to love and amity. 1646H. Lawrence Comm. Angells 185 Incorporate your selves with that which is good, make your self one with it. 1684J. Lacy Sir H. Buffoon i. Dram. Wks. (1875) 225 An Atheist and a Wit are incorporated, and like man and wife become one flesh. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan III. 242 That which incorporates their being for ever and ever. 1841Myers Cath. Th. iii. §8. 27 At what period, they were incorporated into a Sacred Canon, is..unknown. 1847–8H. Miller First Impr. vi. (1859) 89 When the geological vocabulary shall have become better incorporated than at present with the language of our common literature.
2. 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.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. xix. (1495) 875 Clerenesse incorporatyd in that blacke makith it meene and temporat. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 234 This breade and this cuppe..shall assure you, that you are truely incorporated into my bodie. 1598R. Barckley Felic. Man v. (1603) 542 As though they would incorporate their soule to their body. 1601Holland Pliny II. 365 Some there be who incorporat the said head [of a swallow] within white wax, and therewith annoint the forehead. 1794Paley Evid. i. i. (1817) 31 The religion of that age was not merely allied to the state; it was incorporated into it. 1843J. Clason Serm. vii. 126 We eat and drink—what is taken by us enters into and is incorporated in our systems. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. i. (1877) 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.
1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 538 The best edition, incorporating all the works of the author. 1861Stanley East. Ch. viii. (1869) 271 The Koran incorporates some of the earlier Jewish, Christian, and Arabian traditions. 1890Law Times Rep. LXIII. 732/1 The Act of 1885 expressly incorporated sect. 28 of the Act of 1878.
†c. To take or absorb into the body. Obs. rare.
1653Walton Angler vi. 139 By the wormes remaining in that box an hour..they had incorporated a kind of smel that was irresistibly attractive.
3. a. To combine or form into a society or organization; esp. to constitute as a legal corporation.
c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. ii. (1885) 111 Whan Nembroth..made and incorperate the first realme. 1534More Treat. on Passion Wks. 1348/2 Christ..doth..incorporate all christen folke and hys owne bodye to gether in one corporacyon mistical. 1540Act 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. 1693Luttrell Brief Rel. (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. 1732Pope, etc. Art Sinking xvi. 81 It is propos'd, that the two Theatres be incorporated into one company. 1890Gross Gild Merch. 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.)
1530Palsgr. 590/2, I incorporate a man, I make him of crafte or faculte to be sworne to it. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 78 Hee had incorporated himselfe unto another people. 1649Alcoran 401 Giving freedom to such prisoners as would embrace his Law, [he] encorporated them into his Army. 1679Wood Life (O.H.S.) II. 465, I heard at Weston that the vice-chancellor of Oxford, Dr. Fell, has denied Oates his incorporating D.D... Oates 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― Ath. Oxon. II. 688 This year Richard Crashaw of Cambridge was incorporated. 1707Hearne Collect. 21 Mar. (O.H.S.) II. 1 Yesterday was incorporated A.M. Mr. Stevens. 1712E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 295 The Indians given to Spaniards, should be set free, and incorporated in the Crown. 1861Stanley East. Ch. xi. (1869) 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.
1623Bp. Andrewes Serm. (ed. 18) 269 The incorporating Christ, the ordaining Him a body. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 145 Certain crasse, palpable, and Corporeal Images, to incorporate those abstracted Cogitations in. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. v, Some actual Air-maiden, incorporated into tangibility and reality.
II. intr. 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.
1594Plat Jewell-ho., New sorts Soyle 6 Salt..by solution being very apt to incorporate therewith, consumeth all the putrified vapors or parts thereof. 1681J. Flavel Meth. Grace xxvi. 452 Grace can no more incorporate with sin, than oyle with water. a1716South Serm. (1717) IV. 22 He must have mastered his Notions, till they even incorporate into his Mind. 1799G. Smith Laboratory II. 137 In three or four weeks time the bud will incorporate. 1809Malkin Gil Blas vi. i. ⁋2 A rivulet..meandering..to incorporate with the waters of Guadalaviar. 1831Brewster Nat. Magic vi. (1833) 150 The Water will gradually incorporate with the Syrup.
6. a. Of two or more things: To unite so as to form one body; to grow into each other; to form an intimate union (lit. and fig.). ? Obs.
1625Bacon Ess., Unity Relig. (Arb.) 431 Truth and Falshood..are like the Iron and Clay, in the toes of Nabucadnezars Image; They may Cleaue, but they will not Incorporate. 1674Grew Disc. Nat. Mixture v. Inst. 2 §4 Take good Oyl of Vitriol and drop it upon Oyl of Anise⁓seeds; and they will forthwith incorporate together. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. iii. iii, They unite and incorporate into families, clubs, parties and Commonwealths, by mutual Sympathy. 1797Downing Disord. Horned Cattle 32 Beat them with a spoon until they incorporate and become a white paste.
†b. To copulate. Obs. rare.
1622Massinger & Dekker Virg.-Mart. iii. iii, Worse than the noise of a scolding oysterwench, or two cats incorporating.
Add:[II.] 7. Comm. To form or become constituted as a legal corporation.
1955Jrnl. Accountancy May 53/2 An organization which wishes to be taxed as a corporation should be advised to incorporate. 1960I. 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. 1973N.Y. Law Jrnl. 31 Aug. 2/4 (Advt.), Professional people: are you planning to incorporate? 1991Music 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. |