Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-CO'NY, a.

or n. [tau in and con, to know.] Unlearned; artless; an accomplished person, in contempt. [Ill.] Shak.

IN-COR'PO-RAL, a. [in and corporal.]

Not consisting of matter or body; immaterial. [Incorporeal is generally used.] Ralegh.

IN-COR-PO-RALI-TY, n.

The quality of not consisting a matter; immateriality.

IN-COR'PO-RAL-LY, adv.

Without matter or a body; materially.

IN-COR'PO-RATE, a. [in and corporate.]

1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body. [Little used.]
2. Mixed; united in one body; associated. Bacon. Shak.

IN-COR'PO-RATE, v.i.

To unite so as to make a part a another body; to be mixed or blended; to grow into; usually followed by with. Painters; colors and ashes do better incorporate with nit. Baran.

IN-COR'PO-RATE, v.t. [Fr. incorporer; Sp. incorporar; It. incorporare; incorporo; in and corpus, a body.]

1. In pharmacy, to mix different ingredients in one mass or body; to reduce dry substances to the consistence of paste by the admixture of a fluid, as in making pills, &c. Encyc.
2. To mix and embody one substance in another; as, to incorporate copper with silver.
3. To unite; to blend; to work into another mass or body as, to incorporate plagiarisms into one's own composition.
4. To unite; to associate in another government or empire. The Romans incorporated conquered countries into their government. Addison.
5. To embody; to give a material form to. The idolaters, who worshiped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein. Stillingfleet.
6. To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute a body, composed of one or more individuals, with the quality of perpetual existence or succession, unless limited by the act of incorporation; as, to incorporate the inhabitants of a city, town or parish; to incorporate the proprietors of a bridge, the stockholders of a bank, of an insurance company, &c. New Haven was incorporated in January, I784; Hartford, in May, 1784. Stat. of Connecticut.

IN-COR'PO-RA-TED, pp.

Mixed or united in one body associated in the same political body; united in a legal body.

IN-COR'PO-RATING,

Mixing or uniting in one body or mass; associating in the same political body; forming legal body.

IN-COR-PO-RA'TION, n.

1. The act of incorporating.
2. Union of different ingredients in one mass.
3. Association in the same political body; as, the incorporation of conquered countries into the Roman republic.
4. Formation of a legal or political body by the union of individuals, constituting an artificial person. Blackstone

IN-COR-PO'RE-AL, a. [Fr. incorporel; L. incorporalis, incorporeus.]

Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; immaterial. Spirits are deemed incorporeal substances.

IN-COR-PO-RE-AL-LY, adv.

Without body; immaterially. Bacon.

IN-COR-PO-RE'I-TY, n.

The quality of being not material; immateriality.

IN-CORPSE', v.t. incorps'.

To incorporate. [Barbarous.] Shak

IN-COR-RECT', a. [in and correct.]

1. Not correct; not exact; not according to a copy or model, or to establish rules; inaccurate; faulty. The piece, you think, is incorrect. Pope.
2. Not according to truth; inaccurate; as, an incorrect statement, narration or calculation.
3. Not according to law or morality.

IN-COR-REC'TION, n.

Want of correction. Amway

IN-COR-RECT'LY, adv.

Not in accordance with truth or other standard; inaccurately; not exactly; as, a writing incorrectly copied; testimony incorrectly stated.

IN-COR-RECT'NESS, n.

Want of conformity to truth or to a standard; inaccuracy. Incorrectness may consist in defect or in redundance.

IN-COR-RES-PONDING, a.

Not corresponding. Coleridge.

IN-COR'RI-GI-BLE, a. [Fr.; in and corrigible; L. corrigocon and regal.]

1. That can not be corrected or amended; bad beyond consection; as, incorrigible, error.
2. Too depraved to be corrected or reformed; as, an incorrigible sinner; an incorrigible drunkard.

IN-COR'RI-GI-BLY, adv.

To a degree of depravity beyond all means of amendment. Roscommon.

IN-COR'RI-GI-NESS, or IN-COR-RI-GI-BIL'I-TY, n.

The quality of being bad, erroneous or depraved beyond correction hopeless depravity in persons and error in things. Lecks.

IN-COR-RUPT', or IN-COR-RUPT'ED, a. [L. incorruptus; in and corrumpo, corrupts; con and rumpo, to break.]

Not corrupt; not marred, impaired or spoiled; not defiled or depraved; pure; sound; untainted; applicable to persons, principles or substances. Milton.

IN-COR-RUPT-I-BIL'I-TY, n. [from incorruptible.]

The quality of being incapable of decay or of being corrupted.

IN-COR-RUPT'I-BLE, a. [Fr.; in and corruptible.]

1. That can not corrupt or decay; not admitting of correction. Thus gold, glass, mercury, &c. are incorrupt Spirits are supposed to be incorruptible. Our bodies shall be changed into incorruptible and immortal substances. Wake.
2. That can not be bribed; inflexibly just and upright.