Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. [1913 Webster]
"Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate." [1913 Webster]
Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association. [1913 Webster]

incorporate, 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." [1913 Webster]

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

incorporate, v. t.

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

incorporate, 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." [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." [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

incorporate, v. & adj.
--v.
1 tr. (often foll. by in, with) unite; form into one body or whole.
2 intr. become incorporated.
3 tr. combine (ingredients) into one substance.
4 tr. admit as a member of a company etc.
5 tr. a constitute as a legal corporation. b (as incorporated adj.) forming a legal corporation.
--adj.
1 (of a company etc.) formed into a legal corporation.
2 embodied.

Derivative

incorporation n. incorporator n.

Etymology

ME f. LL incorporare (as IN-(2), L corpus -oris body)

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THESAURUS

incorporate

add, admit, amalgamate, assemble, assimilate, blend, body, build, build up, coalesce, combine, come together, complete, compose, compound, comprehend, comprise, connect, consist of, consolidate, constitute, construct, contain, corporealize, corporify, count in, cover, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enter into, envisage, fabricate, fill, fill in, fill out, flux, form, fuse, go into, hold, imbibe, incarnate, include, integrate, interblend, interfuse, join, lump together, make, make one, make up, materialize, meld, melt into one, merge, merge in, mix, number among, occupy, organize, personify, piece together, put together, receive, reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, reembody, reincarnate, roll into one, shade into, solidify, structure, substantialize, substantiate, substantify, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take up, transmigrate, unify, unite, unite in

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incorporate

Combination

VB combine, unite, incorporate, amalgamate, embody, absorb, reembody, blend, merge, fuse, melt into one, consolidate, coalesce, centralize, impregnate, put together, lump together, cement a union, marry.

Immateriality

N immateriality, immaterialness, incorporeity, spirituality, inextension, astral plane, personality, I, myself, me, ego, spirit, astral body, immaterialism, spiritualism, spiritualist, immaterial, immateriate, incorporeal, incorporal, incorporate, unfleshly, supersensible, asomatous, unextended, unembodied, disembodied, extramundane, unearthly, pneumatoscopic, spiritual, personal, subjective, nonobjective.

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