692 I N C 
INCOR'PORALNESS, /. Immateriality, diftinftnefs 
from body. 
To INCORPORATE, v. a. [ incorporer , Fr.] To min¬ 
gle different ingredients lb as they lhall make one mafs.— 
A fifteenth part of filver, incorporate with gold, will not be 
recovered, except you put a greater quantity of filver to 
draw it to the lets. Bacon. 
Who the fwelling clouds in bladders ties. 
To mollify the ftubborn clods with rain, 
And fcatter’d dull incorporate again, Sandys. 
To conjoin infeparably, as one body.—Villainous thoughts, 
Roderigo, when thefe mutualities fo marlhal the way, hard 
at hand comes the mailer and main exercife, the incorpo¬ 
rate conclufion. Shakefpearc. 
Upon my knees I charm you, by that vow 
Which did incorporate and make us one, Shahefpcare. 
To form into a corporation, or body politic. In this fenfe 
they fay in Scotland, the incorporate trades in any commu¬ 
nity.—The apoftle affirmeth plainly of all men chriftian, 
that be they Jews or Gentiles, bond or free, they are all 
incorporated into one company, they all make but one 
body. Hooker. —To unite ; to alfociate.—The Romans did 
not lubdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and 
fword, but to incorporate them into their own community. 
Addifon. 
Your moll grave belly was deliberate, 
Not ralh, like his accufers, and thus anfwer’d ; 
True is it, my incorporate friends, quoth he, 
That I receive the general food at rirll, 
Which you do live upon. Shahefpcare. 
To work into another mafs.—All this learning is ignoble 
and mechanical among them, and the Confutian only el- 
fential and incorporate in their government. Temple. —To 
embody; to give a material form.—Ths idolators, who 
worlhipped their images as gods, fuppofed fome Ipirit to 
be incorporated therein, and fo to make together with it a 
perfon fit to receive worlhip. Stillingfeet. —Courtefy, that 
leemed incorporated In his heart, would not be perfuaded 
by danger to offer any offence. Sidney. 
To INCORPORATE, v. n. To unite with fomething 
elfe. It is commonly followed by with. —Painters’ colours 
and afhes do better incorporate with oil. Bacon .—It is not 
univferlally true, that acid falts and oils will not incorpo¬ 
rate or mingle. Boyle. 
Thy foul 
In real darknefs of the body dwells. 
Shut out from outward light, 
T’ incorporate with gloomy night. Milton. 
Sometimes it has into. —It finds the mind unprepolfelfed 
with any former notions, and fo eafily gains upon the af- 
ient, grows up with it, and incorporates into it. South. ' 
INCOR'PORATE, adj. Immaterial; unbodied. This 
is now difuled to avoid confufion, incorporate being rather 
uled of things mingled.—Mofes forebore to fpeak of an¬ 
gels, and things invifible and incorporate. Raleigh. 
INCOR'PORATEDNESS, f. The Hate or condition of 
being incorporated. 
INCOR'PORATING, f. The act of uniting in one 
mafs. 
INCORPORATION, / Union of divers ingredients 
in one mafs.—Make proof of the incorporation of iron with 
Hint ; for, if it can he incorporated without over-great 
charge, the cheapnefs of the flint doth make the com¬ 
pound Huff profitable. Bacon. —This, with fome little ad¬ 
ditional, may further the intrintic incorporation. Bacon.— 
Formation of a body politic. Adoption ; union ; affoci- 
ation ; with into. —In him we actually are, by our aftual 
incorporation - into that lociety which hath him for their 
head. Hooker. 
Incorporation, or Body corporate. See Corporation, 
arol. v. p. 
I N C 
INCORPO'REAL, adj. \incorpora!is, Lat. incorporel, Fr. 
from in and corporeal.'] Immaterial; unbodied.—It is a 
virtue which may be called incorporeal and imm^teriate, 
whereof there be in nature but few. Bacon. 
Thus incorporeal fpirits to fmalleff forms 
Reduc’d their lhapes immenfe. Milton. 
INCORPO'REALLY, adv. [from incorporeal.'] Imma¬ 
terially; without body.—Hearing flriketh the fpirits more 
immediately than the other fenles, .and more incorporeally 
than the fuelling. Bacon. 
INCORPORE'ITY,/ Immateriality; difiinflnefs from 
body. 
To INCOR'PSE, v.a. To incorporate; to unite into 
one body. Not vj'ed; 
He grew unto his feat, 
As he had been incorps'd and demy-natur’d 
With the brave horie. Shahefpeare. 
INCORRECT', adj. Not nicely finiflied ; not exa6l; 
inaccurate ; full of faults : 
The piece you think is incorreSl :■ why take it; 
I’m all fubmiffion ; what you’d have it, make it. Pope. 
INCORRECT'LY, adv. Inaccurately; not exaflly.—. 
Even in common converfation, a man, who {peaks pro¬ 
perly and accurately, will have a great advantage over 
thole who fpeak incorrectly. Chef erf'old. 
INCORRECT'NESS, J'. Inaccuracy ; want of exami¬ 
ne fs. 
INCORRIGIBILITY, f. Incorrigiblenefs, the Hate 
of being incorrigible. 
INCOR'RIGIBLE, adj. [Fr. from in and corrigible. J 
Bad beyond correction; depraved, beyond amendment by 
any means ; erroneous beyond hope of infiruction : of 
perfons.—Whilff we are incorrigible, God may in ven¬ 
geance continue to chaffife us with the judgment of war. 
Smalridge. 
Provok’d by thofe incorrigible fools, 
I left declaiming in pedantic fchools. Dryden. 
Not capable of amendment: of things.—Thelofsis many 
times irrecoverable, and the inconvenience incorrigible. 
More. 
INCOR'RIGIBLENESS,/ Kopelefs depravity ; bad- 
nels beyond all means of amendment.—I would not have 
chiding ufed, much lefs blows, ’till obltinacy and mcorri- 
giblenej's make it ablolutely accefiary. Locke. 
INCOR'RIGIBLY, adv. To a degree of depravity be¬ 
yond all means of amendment: 
Some men appear incorrigibly mad, 
They cleanlinefs and company renounce. Rofcommon. 
INCORRUPT', or Incorrupt'ed, adj. Free from 
foulnels or depravation : 
Sin, that firff 
Diffemper’d all things, and, of incorrupt , 
Corrupted. Milton. 
Pure of manners ; honed ; good. It is particularly ap-" 
plied to a man above the power of bribes. 
INCORRUPTIBILITY,/ [incorruptibility, Fr. from 
incorruptible.'] Infufceptibility of corruption; incapacity 
of decay.—Philo, in liis book of the world’s incorruptibi¬ 
lity, allegeth the verfes of a Greek tragic poet. Hakewill. 
INCORRUPTIBLE, adj. Not capable of corruption ; 
not admitting of decay.—Our bodies lhall be changed 
into incorruptible and immortal fubflances, our fouls be en¬ 
tertained with the moll ravilhing objefts, and both con¬ 
tinue happy throughout all eternity. Wake. 
In Inch abundance lies our choice, 
As leaves a great itore of fruit untouch’d. 
Still hanging incorruptible. Milton. 
INCORRUPT'IBLENESS, f. The Hate or quality of 
being incorruptible. 
INCORRUPT'IBLES, 
