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incorporate verb. LME.
[Late Latin incorporat- pa. ppl stem of incorporare, formed as IN-2 + corporare CORPORATE verb: see -ATE3.]
I. verb trans.
Combine or unite into one body or uniform substance; mix together. LME.
Capt. Cook Stirring up the several ingredients, till they were perfectly incorporated.
Put (one thing) in or into another to form one whole; include, absorb. LME.
Aldous Huxley The amoeba, when it finds a prey, flows round it, incorporates it, and oozes on. M. Girouard Often an orchard, or a vegetable garden.., was incorporated into the layout.
a. Combine or form into an organization; esp. constitute as a legal corporation. Usu. in pass. LME.
T. Lundberg When a company is incorporated, the initial subscribing shareholders..enter into a form of contract.
b. Admit, enrol (a person) into, in an organization; spec. admit as a graduate of another university ad eundem. M16.
Provide with a body; embody. rare. E17.
II. verb intrans.
Of one thing: combine with to form one body. L16.
D. Brewster The Water will gradually incorporate with the Syrup.
Of two or more things: unite so as to form one body; form a close union. Now rare or obsolete. E17.
Become constituted as a legal corporation. M20.
incorporating adjective (a) that incorporates; (b) Linguistics employing or formed by incorporation; polysynthetic: E17.