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First published 1960 (SND Vol. V).
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INCORPORATE, ppl.adj. As in Eng. = formally constituted as a corporation, applied in Scot. esp. to the trade associations in a burgh. Now gen. in the form incorporated. Cf. Incorporation below.Gsw. 1711 Burgh Rec. Gsw. (1908) 464:
The deacons of the respective incorporat crafts in the burgh.Sc. 1755 Johnson Dict. s.v.:
Incorporate, v., to form into a corporation, or body politick. In this sense they say in Scotland, the incorporate trades in any community.Sc. 1783 Caled. Mercury (26 Feb.):
The Nine Incorporated Trades of Dundee, having this day met, to take into consideration the many grievances, which they, in common with all their Brethren in Scotland, have so long laboured under in point of Civil Liberty.Sc. 1891 J. Colston Incorp. Trades Edb. l.:
The Incorporated Trades are, no doubt, an institution of the past, intimately connected with our citizen struggles for municipal independence. Though they are now merely benefit societies, they still retain the right to send, from among their Deacons, a representative to the Town Council [of Edinburgh], in the person of the Convener of Trades.Sc. 1897 J. H. Pagan Annals Ayr 65:
The Incorporated Trades were another old institution of the town. These were . . . the hammermen or smiths, the squaremen or carpenters, the weavers, the glovers, the cordiners or shoemakers, the waukers or fullers, and the tailors.Sc. 1953 Stat. Acc.³, Aberdeen 527:
The several Incorporated Trades, now mainly provident bodies, hold frequent social events.