1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate. Sir W. Raleigh.
2. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association.
INCORPORATE
In*cor"po*rate, a. Etym: [L. incorporatus, p. p. of incorporare to
incorporate; pref. in- in + corporare to make into a body. See
Corporate.]
Defn: 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.
Shak.
A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold. Bacon.
INCORPORATE
In*cor"po*rate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incorporated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Incorporating.]
1. 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. Shak.
2. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody. The idolaters, who worshiped their images as golds, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein. Bp. Stillingfleet.
3. To unite with, or introduce into, a mass already formed; as, to incorporate copper with silver; — used with with and into.
4. 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. The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community. Addison.
5. 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.