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▪ I. inˈcorporating, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action of combining into one body (in trans. sense).
1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 78 This diuision was an incorporating, and an vniting of the whole together. 1645E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (1661) 50 The Lords sign of his..receiving of us into the Church, and incorporating of us into Christ.
b. spec. The process of combining the ingredients of gunpowder, so as to produce a homogeneous compound. Also attrib., as incorporating mill.
1869Daily News 19 Aug., The explosion, which originated in one of the incorporating mills, was caused by a workman disobeying the rules. 1883Pall Mall G. 17 Feb. 9/2 The incorporating mills of the Kennal Gunpowder Company's Works, near Penryn, were blown up yesterday. 1881Greener Gun 311 The incorporating is one of the most dangerous processes.
2. The action of uniting into a society or association (in intr. sense); = incorporation 2.
1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxii. 119 The End of their Incorporating, is to make their gaine the greater. 1689tr. Buchanan's De Jure Regni apud Scotos 8 You do not then make utility..to be the cause..of men's incorporating in political Societies.
▪ II. inˈcorporating, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That incorporates, or unites into one body.
1611Cotgr., Incorporant, incorporating, ioyning in one bodie. 1645Milton Tetrach. Wks. (1847) 189/2 The most intimate and incorporating duties of Love and embracement. 1746James Introd. Moufet & Bennet's Health's Improv. 64 The tender and fresh Parts of Plants abound with Water, and..Salts..To the Mixture of which, with a moderate oily and vegetable Fluid, is owing their incorporating and dissolving Juice.
b. incorporating union, a union which combines two or more states, etc. under one government, or converts separate bodies into one corporation. (Orig. said of the Union between England and Scotland in 1707.) So also Incorporating Act.
1706Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) VI. 105 The parliament had read 5 or 6 addresses against an incorporating union with England. 1707Vulpone 18 They had changed their Notion of an Incorporating Union into that of a Federal one. 1813M. Cutler in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888) II. 320, I shall send you..our Incorporating Act and Constitution. 1825T. Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 32 He distinguished between an incorporating and a federal union. 1871Pall Mall G. 12 Jan., It is hopeless to expect an incorporating union of all the seven provinces [of Australia] at present.
c. Of languages: Combining several parts of speech (e.g. verb and objects, etc.) in one word: cf. incorporation 1 b.
1859Max Müller Sc. Lang. (1871) I. 371 A fourth class, sometimes called polysynthetic or incorporating, including most of the American languages. 1875Whitney Life Lang. xii. 260 This common mode of structure..is called the polysynthetic, or incorporating. |