incorporate

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to make into a whole or make part of a whole

   I incorporated their suggestions into the proposal.

2. 2
   verb

   unite or merge with something already in existence

   incorporate this document with those pertaining to the same case

3. 3
   verb

   To include (something) as a part.

   The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.

4. 4
   verb

   To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend

   Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking.

5. 5
   verb

   To form into a legal company.

   The company was incorporated in 1980.

6. 6
   verb

   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.

7. 7
   verb

   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

8. 8
   adj

   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.

Etymology

From Middle English, from Late Latin incorporātus, perfect passive participle of incorporō (“to embody, to incorporate”), from in- (“in”) + corpus, corporis (“body”).