[f. L. concorporāt- ppl. stem of concorporāre to unite in one body, f. con- together + corpus, corpor- body, corporāre to embody.]
1. trans. To unite into one body or mass.
1552. Huloet, Concorporate or make one thynge of diuers.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 446. Stamp riuer crabs or creifishes, concorporat them with oile and water.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xv. (1632), 815. To vnite and concorporate these two Kingdomes of Fraunce and England into one.
1664. Atkyns, Orig. Printing, 6. They were by Charter concorporated with Book-Binders, Book-Sellers, and Founders of Letters.
1670. Phil. Trans., V. 2096. From the shoulders down to the bottom of the Loins they were not distinct, but cemented and concorporated.
1823. Lamb, Elia, Pop. Fallacies. We love to have our friend in the country sitting thus at our table by proxy … to concorporate him in a slice of Canterbury brawn.
b. To assimilate by digestion.
a. 1655. Vines, Lord’s Supp. (1677), 111. The meat and drink is concorporated into us.
† 2. intr. To coalesce into one body. Obs.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XVII. xiv. The want of vitall moisture in the other, will not suffer it to unite and concorporat.
1695. H. Dodwell, Def. of Vind. Deprived Bps., 100. It cannot be agreeable to the mind of God that it [the church] should so concorporate with the State, as wholly to depend on the Authority of the Civil Magistrates.
1700. S. Parker, Six Philos. Ess., 14. It is the property of Oily Particles to concorporate, when they encounter.
Hence Concorporating vbl. sb.
1648. T. Hill, Troth & Love, 11. Not onely a concorporating with Jews, as the Gentile Churches did.
