Incorporate

Pronunciation

• Canada IPA: /ɪnˈkɔɹpÉše(ɪ)t/
• RP IPA: /ɪnˈkɔː(ɹ).pɜː(ɹ).eɪt/
• US enPR: Ä­nkôr'pÉ™rāt, IPA: /ɪnˈkɔɹpÉšeɪt/

Full definition of incorporate

Verb

1. (transitive) To include (something) as a part.The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
• AddisonThe Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community.
2. (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blendIncorporate air into the mixture.
3. (transitive) To admit as a member of a company
4. (transitive) To form into a legal company.The company was incorporated in 1980.
5. (US, legal) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
6. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
• ShakespeareBy your leaves, you shall not stay alone,
  Till holy church incorporate two in one.
7. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
• Bishop StillingfleetThe idolaters, who worshipped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.

Derived terms

• incorporated

Adjective

1. (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
• ShakespeareAs if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds
  Had been incorporate.
• Francis Bacona fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold
2. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
• Sir Walter RaleighMoses forbore to speak of angels, and things invisible, and incorporate.
3. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.an incorporate banking association

Anagrams

• procreation