incorporate

Etymology 1

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

verb

1. (transitive) To include (something) as a part.
   The design of his house incorporates a spiral staircase.
   to incorporate another's ideas into one's work
   In spite of their small size and low weight, many technical developments which have proved themselves in main-line service have been incorporated, and a novelty in the 2-6-0-type is a tender cab to improve the conditions of tender-first running. 1947 March and April, “L.M.S.R. Locomotive Developments”, in Railway Magazine, page 66
   The new cars incorporate many features first introduced in the 1938 tube stock, but major changes include the use of rubber for the bogie bolster and axlebox suspension, fluorescent lighting, and the panelling of the cars in unpainted aluminium alloy. 1960 February, “The first of London's new Piccadilly Line trains is delivered”, in Trains Illustrated, page 93
2. (transitive) To mix (something in) as an ingredient; to blend
   Incorporate air into the mixture by whisking.
3. (transitive) To admit as a member of a company
4. (transitive) To form into a legal company.
   The company was incorporated in 1980.
5. (US, law) To include (another clause or guarantee of the US constitution) as a part (of the Fourteenth Amendment, such that the clause binds not only the federal government but also state governments).
6. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass.
7. 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 1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome

adj

1. (obsolete) Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied.

Etymology 2

in- (“not”) + corporate

adj

1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual.
   The air vibrated at a white-hot temperature, the stones seemed to be trembling silently, ready to flow, and in the distance, at a curve of the road, the files of men, guns and horses seemed detached from the earth, and trembled like a mass of jelly in their onward progress, and it seemed to me that they were not living people that I saw before me, but an army of incorporate shadows. 1905, Leonid Andreyev, translated by Alexandra Linden, The Red Laugh: Fragments of a Discovered Manuscript
2. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation.
   an incorporate banking association