To incorporate or unite into a body or organization; to combine or merge.
From Latin accorporare: ad- 'to' + corporare 'to embody' (from corpus 'body'). The word literally means 'to bring into the same body' and comes from medieval legal language about joining entities.
This word is almost entirely obsolete now, but it used to be crucial in medieval and Renaissance law—when two towns or properties were 'accorporated,' it meant they were legally joined as one unified entity. It's like the ancestor of our modern 'corporate merger.'
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