Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Corporate \Cor"po*rate\ (-r?t), v. t.
   To incorporate. [Obs.] -- Stow.

Corporate \Cor"po*rate\, v. i.
   To become incorporated. [Obs.]

Corporate \Cor"po*rate\ (k?r"p?-r?t), a. [L. corporatus, p. p.
   of corporare to shape into a body, fr. corpus body. See
   {Corpse}.]
   1. Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an
      association, and endowed by law with the rights and
      liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a
      corporate town.

   2. Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body.
      ``Corporate property.'' --Hallam.

   3. United; general; collectively one.

            They answer in a joint and corporate voice. --Shak.

   {Corporate member}, an actual or voting member of a
      corporation, as distinguished from an associate or an
      honorary member; as, a corporate member of the American
      Board.

Source : WordNet®

corporate
     adj 1: of or belonging to a corporation; "corporate rates";
            "corporate structure"
     2: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal
        melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an
        incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" [syn:
        {bodied}, {corporal}, {embodied}, {incarnate}]
     3: done by or characteristic of individuals acting together; "a
        joint identity"; "the collective mind"; "the corporate
        good" [syn: {collective}]
     4: organized and maintained as a legal corporation; "a special
        agency set up in corporate form"; "an incorporated town"
        [syn: {incorporated}]