Citations:accorporate
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English citations of accorporate
- Latin accorporare; ad + corporis (gen. of corpus, “body”)
- (obsolete) To unite; to attach.
- 1644, John Milton, The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce:
- To pursue the allegory, Custom being but a mere face, […] rests not in her unaccomplishment, until by secret inclination she accorporate herself with Error […]
- 1959, Leonard Nathanson, The Strategy of Truth: A Study of Sir Thomas Brown's Religio Medici, page 95, quoting Milton:
- Lamenting "that custom still is silently received for the best instructor," he fashions an allegory in which custom "accorporates" with error. The two support each other and "between them would persecute and chase away all truth" […]
- 2015, Seth Lobis, The Virtue of Sympathy: Magic, Philosophy, and Literature in Seventeenth-century England, Yale University Press (→ISBN), page 150, quoting Milton:
- Moved by the “secret inclination” of sympathy, Adam insists on “accorporating” himself with Eve; they will fall as one fallen body. Although Eve's birth required Adam to sacrifice “cordial spirits,” her presence fills him […]