*corporate*

v. t. [ L. accorporare; ad + corpus, corporis, body. ] To unite; to attach; to incorporate. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + corporate. ] (Her.) Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ L. concorporatus, p. p. of concorporare. ] To unite in one mass or body; to incorporate. [ Archaic. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. United in one body; incorporated. [ Archaic ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. corporatus, p. p. of corporare to shape into a body, fr. corpus body. See Corpse. ] 1. Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body. “Corporate property.” Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. United; general; collectively one. [ 1913 Webster ]

They answer in a joint and corporate voice. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporate member, an actual or voting member of a corporation, as distinguished from an associate or an honorary member; as, a corporate member of the American Board. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To incorporate. [ Obs. ] Stow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become incorporated. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Finance) a person who purchases or attempts to purchase a controlling interest in a publicly-traded company against the wishes of the current management. such a buyout is caled a hostile takeover.
Syn. -- buyout specialist, takeover artist. [ PJC ]

a. Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate. [ Obs. ] Jas. II. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disincorporated p. pr. & vb. n. Disincorporating ] 1. To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; disincorporated. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incorporatus. See In- not, and Corporate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. [ 1913 Webster ]

Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incorporatus, p. p. of incorporare to incorporate; pref. in- in + corporare to make into a body. See Corporate. ] Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied. [ 1913 Webster ]

As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds
Had been incorporate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Incorporated p. pr. & vb. n. Incorporating ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

By your leaves, you shall not stay alone,
Till holy church incorporate two in one. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody. [ 1913 Webster ]

The idolaters, who worshiped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To unite with, or introduce into, a mass already formed; as, to incorporate copper with silver; -- used with with and into. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; -- usually followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Painters' colors and ashes do better incorporate will oil. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

He never suffers wrong so long to grow,
And to incorporate with right so far
As it might come to seem the same in show. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. United or combined together to form in one body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formed into a corporation and registered with a government body as such; made a legal entity. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. To incorporate again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref. trans- + corporate. ] To transmigrate. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]