Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-COR'PO-RATE, v.t. [Fr. incorporer; Sp. incorporar; It. incorporare; L. 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.