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incorporation|ɪnkɔːpəˈreɪʃən|
[ad. late L. incorporātiōn-em, n. of action from incorporāre to incorporate. Cf. F. incorporation (15th c.).]
1. a. The action of incorporating two or more things, or one thing with (in, into, † to) another; the process or condition of being so incorporated; union in or into one body.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. x. vii. (Bodl. MS.), Fuyre by his incorporacion and onyng to gretter and þikker parties of erþelich matere..is iholde byneþe by a certeyne violence of kinde. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 267 Our drinking is as it were a certeine incorporation in him. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus iii. 5 Such as haue receiued inuisible incorporation into Christs bodie. 1641French Distill. i. (1651) 11 Incorporation, is a mixtion of a dry and moist body together, so as to make an uniform masse of them. 1718Quincy Compl. Disp. 35 Incorporation, thus term'd in Pharmacy, is employed in bringing and joining together, by the Interposition of a third Body. 1765Hutchinson (title) The History of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay from the first settlement thereof in 1628 until its incorporation with the Colony of Plimouth. 1812G. Chalmers Dom. Econ. Gt. Brit. 95 The incorporation of two independent legislatures has proved equally advantageous to both countries. 1861Stanley East. Ch. ix. (1869) 285 The gradual incorporation of Russia into the commonwealth of Western nations. 1881Wescott & Hort Grk. N.T. Introd. §12 The incorporation of various readings noted in the margin.
b. Philol. The combination of two or more parts of speech in one word, as when the object or complement of a verb is inserted between its stem and termination so that the whole forms one word: cf. incorporating ppl. a. c.
1874Sayce Compar. Philol. i. 22 The Basque verb presents the phenomenon of incorporation to an astonishing degree.
2. a. The action or process of forming into a community or corporation; esp. the formation of a legal corporation or body politic.
c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. ii. (1885) 112 This incorperacion, institucion, and onynge of hem self into a reaume. 1513–14Act 5 Hen. VIII, c. 6 The forsaid Citie of London, from the tyme of their firste Incorporacion. 1640–4in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 154 The Patent for the Incorporation of the Parish Clerks. 1819J. Marshall Const. Opin. (1839) 195 The charter of incorporation was granted at his instance.
†b. The document creating or legalizing a corporation; a charter. Obs.
a1600in Eng. Gilds 302 A new incorporacion wch the saide company of Taylors had procured from the kinge. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. vii. §6 Adrian spent his whole reign..in a..survey of the Roman empire..granting new franchises and incorporations.
c. The action of incorporating (cf. incorporate v. 3 b) into another university.
1966Rep. Comm. Inquiry Univ. Oxf. I. 404 Degrees in absence and by incorporation.
3. An incorporated society or company; = corporation.
1530in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 85 To have of them an incorporacion..and to have a Master and Warden of there Crafte. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 169 At Courtopstrete they do yet reserve a Mace and a Horne assured badges of an incorporation. 1631Gouge God's Arrows iii. §11. 206 Vniversities, Innes of Court, Incorporations, Companies, and other such like Societies. 1776Adam Smith W.N. v. i. (1869) II. 382 The clergy of every established church constitute a great incorporation. 1822Scott Nigel ix, An eminent member of the Goldsmiths' Incorporation. 1879H. George Progr. & Pov. iii. iv, Railroad companies and other incorporations.
4. Embodiment; an embodied realization. rare.
1645M. Casaubon Orig. Temp. Evils 2 That opinion of the ancientest Philosophers..that the Soules of men had a subsistence long before their incorporation. 1647H. More Poems 229 The self-form'd soul may work without Incorporation. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xvi, He thought he saw a very troublesome, vigorous incorporation of that nonsense [enthusiasm] in Felix. 1884J. Rae Contemp. Socialism 233 Schmoller..offers us no other incorporation of his dogma.
Hence (nonce-wds.) † incorpoˈrationer, a member of an incorporation; incorpoˈrationist, one who favours or supports incorporation.
1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. E j, At the townes end met him the burgers and dunsticall incorporationers of Wittenberg. 1888Daily News 31 Oct. 7/1 The great struggle centres in striving to obtain a majority of incorporationists in the council. |