arch. [f. L. corporāt-, ppl. stem of corporāre to form into or furnish with a body, f. corpus, corpor- body.]
† 1. trans. To form into a corporation or body politic; to incorporate. Obs.
1531. Act 23 Hen. VIII., c. 19. All and singuler politike bodies spirituall in anie maner of wise corporated.
1598. Stow, Surv., xlii. (1603), 449. Erected, corporated and endowed with landes.
1611. Speed, Theat. Gt. Brit., xxvii. (1614), 53/1. This City … whom Henry 6. corporated a County of it selfe.
1631. Weever, Anc. Fun. Mon., 446. This Hospitall was … erected, corporated, and endowed … by Queene Mary.
2. To combine in one body; to incorporate (with); to embody.
1545. Hen. VIII., in Stow, Chron. (R.). Such notable vertues and princely qualities as you haue alleaged to be corporated in my person.
1616. Surfl. & Markh., Country Farme, 43. Corporated with the flower of Frankincense and aloes.
1888. Pall Mall Gaz., 5 March, 1/2. In … ‘public spirit’ London is notoriously and disastrously deficient. The great thing needful is to corporate its conscience.
3. intr. To unite or join in one body. rare.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, III. II. xix. Though she [the Soul] corporate with no World yet.
1865. G. Meredith, Farina, 61. At the threshold … a number of the chief burgesses of Cologne had corporated spontaneously to condole with him.
Hence Corporating ppl. a., incorporating.
1881. Greener, Gun, 307. According to these chronicles, corporating mills, stamping mills, corning mills, and solar stoves for drying the powder, were in use.
