Middle English Dictionary Entry
corporāten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | corporāten v. Also corperat. |
| Etymology | From ML corporāt-us, ppl. of corporāre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
To incorporate or assimilate (sth.).
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)74b/a : At þe laste..þe mete is I corporat & I turned in to þe kende of þe body.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)231b/b : Wiþ Jus of lilie wel y medlid and y corporate wiþ olde oyle.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)317b/b : Þe wyn schal be ofte helde þer on for to þe vertu of þe spicery be y corporate [L incorporetur] in to þe wyne.
2.
Law (a) To constitute (sth.) as a legal corporation; incorporate; (b) ppl. corporat, constituted as a legal corporation; person ~, a legally incorporated body; shire ~, a municipal borough endowed with the organization of a county, a county corporate.
Associated quotations
a
- (1461) RParl.5.467a : Any Licence or Graunte made to any persone..to incorporat or corporate, or to founde..any Chauntre.
- (1472-3) RParl.6.16a : By what name or names, or under what soever maner and fourme, the seid Maire, Baillifs and Communalte..be named or corporat or called in the same Lettres Patentes.
- (1473) RParl.6.95a : By whatsoever name or names they or any of theym be corporat, or be named or called in any of the seid Letters Patentes or Grauntes.
b
- (1429) RParl.4.346a : The saide parties so wronged..may have here generall actions of dette ayeinst the saide Cominaltes of the saide Forest and Hundredes..so take that the saide Cominaltes been no Cominaltes corporat.
- (1450) RParl.5.173a : All maner londes..and commoditees temporelx beyng in the handes of eny persones corperate.
- (1461) RParl.5.478b : That it be ordeyned and stablished..that the same Maners..Castelles, Lordships..make, and from the seid fourth day of Marche be, the seid Duchie of Lancastr' corporat, and be called the Duchie of Lancastr'.
- (1463) RParl.5.497b : Every persone nowe inhabitaunt within any Cite..beyng a Shire Corporat.
- (1463-4) RParl.5.504b : Maires and Baillifs of Boroughs corporat.
- (1472-5) RParl.6.157a : The Justices of peas in every Shire of this Reame, and the Justices of peas in every place corporat Shire.
- (1474) RParl.6.111b : Your severall Comyssions shuld be sent into every Shire and to every Cite and Towne beyng a Shire corporat.
- (1475) RParl.6.150a : Th'issues and profittes of almaner Londes..which any persone Temporell, corporat or not corporat, of this your Reame..then had.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1450(1438) GLeg.Epiphany (GiL13) (Eg 876) 85/185 : O heuenli palais wherin duellith a kyng not crowned but God corporat, to whom was ordeyned an harde crache in stede of a softe and precious bedde, thou hast the hynes of a smokyng hous.
Note: Editor: "corporat: encorpore P2, 'incorporated', i.e. incarnate; MED corporaten v. sense 1. 'incorporate or assimilate' gives only three citations, all from Trevisa, but none with this specific contextual extension."
Note: ?New sense, or ?modify sense 1., 'embodied' or 'incarnate'.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- a1500 Abbrev.Elucid.(Pen 12)37/14 : For þer is no creature corporall that hathe power to se an angell in his propur likenesse..therfore bothe angelis and oþer spiritis take them a corporall substaunce in the eyre when they com, that the corporat bodies of the erthe may haue power to se them.
- a1500 Abbrev.Elucid.(Pen 12)37/19 : The spirite of a man..as sone as hit is departid from the corporat body in erthe, hit gothe streyght oþer to Hevyn oþer to Hell.
- a1500 Abbrev.Elucid.(Pen 12)38/5 : Ther is no þing may tewche erthe but hit be erthely hitsylf, and angelis and all spiritis haue noþer flesche ne boon, nor noþing that is corporat terrestre.
Note: This may be a true adjective, not merely an extended participle. Gloss: ?corporeal, physical; or more likely (since the word seems to be used in distinction from 'corporal'), ?united, as body and soul, in one being, embodied, compound, even 'hybrid.' The last example, combining what are normally two adjectives corporat terrestre, is taken here as an adjective corporat, modified by a post-posited adjective used adverbially, perhaps "embodied with earth" or something similar. The first adjective may, of course be used substantively ('something embodied'), modified again by a post-posited adjective ('a thing embodied in earth').