In*cor"po*rate (?), a. [L.
incorporatus. See In- not, and Corporate.]
1. Not consisting of matter; not having a
material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things
invisible, and incorporate.
Sir W.
Raleigh.
2. Not incorporated; not existing as a
corporation; as, an incorporate banking association.
In*cor"po*rate, 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.
As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds
Had been incorporate.
Shak.
A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with
gold.
Bacon.
In*cor"po*rate (?), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. Incorporated (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Incorporating (?).]
1. To form into a body; to combine, as
different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
By your leaves, you shall not stay alone,
Till holy church incorporate two in one.
Shak.
2. To unite with a material body; to give a
material form to; to embody.
The idolaters, who worshiped their images as gods,
supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein.
Bp. Stillingfleet.
3. To unite with, or introduce into, a mass
already formed; as, to incorporate copper with silver; -- used
with with and into.
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.
The Romans did not subdue a country to put the
inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into
their own community.
Addison.
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.
In*cor"po*rate (?), v. i. To unite
in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; --
usually followed by with.
Painters' colors and ashes do better
incorporate will oil.
Bacon.
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.
