Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COR'PO-RATE, a. [L. corporatus, from corporor, to be shaped into a body, from corpus, body.]

1. United in a body, or community, as a number of individuals, who are empowered to transact business as an individual; formed into a body; as, a corporate assembly, or society; a corporate town. – Swift.
2. United; general; collectively one. They answer in a corporate voice. – Shak.