incorporate

Verb

incorporate (third-person singular simple present incorporates, present participle incorporating, simple past and past participle incorporated)

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

   Synonyms:

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

2. (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
   • Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking.
3. (transitive) To admit as a member of a company
4. (transitive) To form into a legal company.
   • The company was incorporated in 1980.
   • 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...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. (US) To 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...
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 them1710, 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

Adjective (1)

UK/ɪŋˈkɔː.pə.ɹət/US/ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.ət/

incorporate (comparative more incorporate, superlative most incorporate)

1. (obsolete) 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.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...
   • a fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold1627 (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...

Adjective (2)

Canada/ɪŋˈkɔɹpɚət/UK/ɪŋˈkɔː(ɹ).pəɹ.ət/

incorporate (not comparable)

1. Not 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)
   • 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...1905, Leonid Andreyev, translated by Alexandra Linden, The Red Laugh: Fragments of a Discovered Manuscript
2. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
   • an incorporate banking association