Middle English Dictionary Entry
incorporāt(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | incorporāt(e adj. Also incorperate. |
| Etymology | L incorporātus, ppl. of incorporāre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Forming one body with (sth.), absorbed in; ~ in, ~ to; ~ of, contained in; ~ unto, united with; (b) ~ with, blended with (sth.), combined with; (c) ~ to, of a book of the Bible: accepted into (the canon).
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)132a/b : Leye fondiþ to meve vp warde and drawiþ fro þe neþire partyes vpward to þe whiche he is incorporat.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)132b/a : Cole is fyre incorporat in dede.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)134a/b : Wynd..is..movynge of drye vapour Idrawe vp fro þe myddel of þe erþe with eire & incorporat in þe eyr wiþ som heuenly vertue.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)213b/a : For gleymy fatnes þat is incorporat of þis tree [L ligno..incorporatam], abies atentiþ ful soone, and brenneþ wiþ light leye.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)309b/b : Clerenesse incorporate in þat blak makeþ it mene and temperate.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)310a/b : Blaknesse is y-gendred of skars light and dymme incorporat in clere matiere þat is dym..and vnpure.
- (c1443) Pecock Rule (Mrg M 519)180 : He [the candle] lesiþ no degree of his substancial liȝt incorporat to his flamme.
- c1450 Capgr.Rome (Bod 423)118 : Þe same sacrament..lith still incorporat on to þe ston.
b
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)28a/b : Mele of orobi or benez incorperate [*Ch.(2): incorpered; L incorporata] with sirup acetoso.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(1) (NY 12)94b/b : Sancdracoun, balaustie, and lich þyngez incorperate [*Ch.(2): medled; L incorporatis] with white or eyren.
c
- (a1464) Capgr.Chron.(Cmb Gg.4.12)12 : The Epistil of Judas..is incorporate to the Bible.
2.
(a) Organized or constituted as a legal corporation; bodi ~ [see bodi 8. (a)]; shire ~, a city or borough legally constituted as a county, corporate county [cp. shire corporate under corporaten 2. (b)]; (b) of land, a territory: ~ to (into), combined to form one unit with (other land or territory).
Associated quotations
a
- (1433) RParl.4.425b : Also that semblable Commissions by the auctorite aboveseid, in every Citee or Burgh in this your seide Roialme, chargeable to the seid xme, beyng a Shire incorporate, be directe to a Lorde.
- (1437) RParl.4.503a : Every Parish or Warde..in the said Shire so incorporate.
- (1464) Paston (Gairdner)4.110 : And also by your seid lettirs patentes to graunt the same prestes to be one body incorperate.
b
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)1.329 : Hibernia..was of olde tyme incorporat [Higd.(2): concorporate; L concorporata] in to þe lordschippe of Bretayne.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.161/23 : Þe foresaide prior and Couent of Merton proprietaries and persons of þe parisch church of Dunstywe..to vs and to our priorye vnyed and annexid and Incorporate.
3.
Of God, a spirit: provided with a body, incarnate.
Associated quotations
- ?a1475(?a1425) Higd.(2) (Hrl 2261)4.329 : Whiche peple contynuede longe in lyfe..supposenge alle sawles to be create in the begynnenge of the worlde, and to be incorporate [Trev.: iputt in to bodyes; L incorporari] for a tyme.
- a1500 Add.Hymnal (Add 34193)456/33 : Descendynge dwone Ryght from þe heyvyns hye In to the wombe of uergine marye..In owr nature thow were incorporate.