Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Tending to incorporate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incorporating or tending to incorporate; ) which run a whole phrase into one word.
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- adjective That serves to
incorporate
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories
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Examples
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Visually incorporative, the design quality of its sleek and modern frame is only enhanced by the fact that it was deliberately designed to utilize re-used bi-products from other industries.
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In fact, the Court can take a narrow view of Privileges or Immunities solely as an incorporative methodology, and leave to a later day the protection of substantive rights.
The Volokh Conspiracy » How Many Votes To Overrule The Slaughterhouse Cases? 2009
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Most startlingly, he argues that a great deal of this incorporative work has been accomplished by a particular genre of novel: the Bildungsroman.
Archive 2008-07-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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Most startlingly, he argues that a great deal of this incorporative work has been accomplished by a particular genre of novel: the Bildungsroman.
Mullins reviews Slaughter, Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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As such, it does not anticipate National Service as a singular programme of activity but incorporative of a wide range of projects and activities falling within broadly accredited criteria falling under the administrative, funding an co-ordinating support of a National
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Wilhelm von Humboldt, when he laid down that the incorporative characteristic essential to all the American languages is the result of the exaltation of the imaginative over the ratiocinative elements of mind.
Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs William Gates 1901
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In uniting other countries to England they have instinctively aimed at an incorporative not at a federal union.
A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 Albert Venn Dicey 1878
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The isolating, agglutinative, incorporative, and inflectional languages can be put in a series according to the convenience and correctness of the logical processes which they embody and teach.
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals William Graham Sumner 1875
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I would not be misunderstood; persons are not principles; but principles may be illustrated and incorporative in persons.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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I would not be misunderstood; persons are not principles; but principles may be illustrated and incorporative in persons.
Probabilities : An aid to Faith Martin Farquhar Tupper 1849
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