Word Definition

Incorporate

  1. 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.
  2. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody.
  3. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
  4. Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.
  5. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients. into one consistent mass.
  6. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association.
  7. 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.
  8. To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; -- usually followed by with.
  9. To unite with, or introduce into, a mass already formed; as, to incorporate copper with silver; -- used with with and into.