incorporate

present singular third person incorporates · participle present incorporating · participle past incorporated · past incorporated

1. transitiveTo include (something) as a part.

   to incorporate another's ideas into one's work

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   The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.

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

   1716 March 5 (Gregorian calendar), Joseph Addison, “The Free-holder: No. 19. Thursday, February 24. [1716.]”, in The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq; […], volume IV, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], published 1721, →OCLC

   In spite of their small size and low weight, many technical developments which have proved themselves in main-line service have been incorporated, and a novelty in the 2-6-0-type is a tender cab to improve the conditions of tender-first running.

   1947 March and April, “L.M.S.R. Locomotive Developments”, in Railway Magazine, page 66

   The new cars incorporate many features first introduced in the 1938 tube stock, but major changes include the use of rubber for the bogie bolster and axlebox suspension, fluorescent lighting, and the panelling of the cars in unpainted aluminium alloy.

   1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93

   In Episode 3, Gia incorporates very distinct and strong gestures as she teaches Havelock the phrase, "Unte kowlting gut, to pochuye ke?" ("And everything will be okay, understand?")

   2016 January 15, Bryan Enk, “Belter Creole 101”, in SYFY, archived from the original on 31 Mar 2025

   Synonyms: absorb, add on, assimilate, co-opt, corporate, incorpse, integrate, subsume

2. transitiveTo mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend

   Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking.

3. transitiveTo admit as a member of a company
4. transitiveTo form into a legal company.

   The company was incorporated in 1980.

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   In last week's primary election, more than 90% of voters approved incorporating the community of Mountain House in San Joaquin County, creating the first new city in California in over a decade. […] Now, amid another building boom, Mountain House is set to become a city, the first new California city since Jurupa Valley became incorporated in Riverside County in 2011.

   2024 March 13, Wilson Walker, “Community of Mountain House votes overwhelmingly to become 1st California city since 2011”, in CBS News, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2025

5. USlawTo include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the Fourteenth Amendment, 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.

   By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, / Till holy church incorporate two in one.

   c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi]

7. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.

   do not deny , that there was such an Opinion among the Heathens , that Spirits might possess Images , and be incorporated with them

   1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome

comparative more incorporate · superlative most incorporate

1. obsoleteCorporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.

   a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold

   1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC

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   As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds / Had been incorporate.

   c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]

   And gazing on thee, sullen tree, ⁠Sick for thy stubborn hardihood, ⁠I seem to fail from out my blood And grow incorporate into thee.

   1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto II”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC

1. not comparableNot consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.

   Moses forbore to speak of angels, and of things invisible, and incorporate.

   1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5)

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   The air vibrated at a white-hot temperature, the stones seemed to be trembling silently, ready to flow, and in the distance, at a curve of the road, the files of men, guns and horses seemed detached from the earth, and trembled like a mass of jelly in their onward progress, and it seemed to me that they were not living people that I saw before me, but an army of incorporate shadows.

   1905, Leonid Andreyev, translated by Alexandra Linden, The Red Laugh: Fragments of a Discovered Manuscript

2. not comparableNot incorporated; not existing as a corporation.

   an incorporate banking association