Definition of Incorporative

1. Adjective. Growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories. "The Russian Empire was a typical incorporative state"

Similar to: Increasing
Derivative terms: Incorporate

Definition of Incorporative

1. a. Incorporating or tending to incorporate; as, the incorporative languages (as of the Basques, North American Indians, etc. ) which run a whole phrase into one word.

Definition of Incorporative

1. Adjective. That serves to incorporate ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Incorporative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incorporative

incoordinate
incoordination
incoordinations
incoronate
incorporable
incorporal
incorporality
incorporally
incorporate
incorporated
incorporated company
incorporates
incorporating
incorporation
incorporations
incorporative (current term)
incorporator
incorporators
incorporeal
incorporealism
incorporealist
incorporealists
incorporeality
incorporeally
incorporeities
incorporeity
incorpse
incorpsed
incorpses
incorpsing

Literary usage of Incorporative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Scotland: From Agricola's Invasion to the Revolution of 1688 by John Hill Burton (1867)
"... ENGLAND—PECULIAR POLICY IN THE FORM OF HIS TRIAL HIS EXECUTION—ITS EFFECT ON HIS COUNTRYMEN—ORGANISATION OF SCOTLAND—incorporative UNION—REPRESENTATIVES ..."

2. The Culture of Violence by Kumar Rupesinghe (1994)
"Should the agents of state fail in their incorporative power, this simultaneously signs ... A failure in the hierarchical incorporative power of the state, ..."

3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1894)
"Such a sentence, whether it coalesces or not into one phonetic complex, is built essentially on the incorporative plan, and it isa typical example of what ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1886)
"Many highly complex verbal forms seem to me to illustrate a close incorporative tendency. Let us analyze for instance the word, ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"This type is called the incorporative or polysynthetic. ... G89 " The incorporative type is not wholly peculiar to the languages of our continent. ..."

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