a. [ L. incorporatus. See In- not, and Corporate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. [ 1913 Webster ]

Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incorporatus, p. p. of incorporare to incorporate; pref. in- in + corporare to make into a body. See Corporate. ] Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied. [ 1913 Webster ]

As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds
Had been incorporate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Incorporated p. pr. & vb. n. Incorporating ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

By your leaves, you shall not stay alone,
Till holy church incorporate two in one. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody. [ 1913 Webster ]

The idolaters, who worshiped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To unite with, or introduce into, a mass already formed; as, to incorporate copper with silver; -- used with with and into. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To unite intimately; to blend; to assimilate; to combine into a structure or organization, whether material or mental; as, to incorporate provinces into the realm; to incorporate another's ideas into one's work. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; -- usually followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Painters' colors and ashes do better incorporate will oil. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

He never suffers wrong so long to grow,
And to incorporate with right so far
As it might come to seem the same in show. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. United or combined together to form in one body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formed into a corporation and registered with a government body as such; made a legal entity. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ L. incorporatio: cf. F. incorporation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation; as, the incorporation of conquered countries into the Roman republic. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) (a) The act of creating a corporation. (b) A body incorporated; a corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incorporating or tending to incorporate; as, the incorporative languages (as of the Basques, North American Indians, etc. ) which run a whole phrase into one word. [ 1913 Webster ]

History demonstrates that incorporative unions are solid and permanent; but that a federal union is weak. W. Belsham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a number of persons who gets a company incorporated; one of the original members of a corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]