to disincorporate
- verb
- /ˌdɪsɪnˈkɔːrpəreɪt/
- Formal
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disolver
- Second, and more radically, the Supreme Court might disincorporate—that is, hold that the states are no longer bound by—one or both of the religion clauses.
Examples
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Indeed, disincorporating the Establishment Clause is quite plausible as a matter of text and history.
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Instead, I will explore the consequences that might follow from taking Justice Thomas's views on disincorporating the Establishment Clause seriously.
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But democracy "disincorporates" society.
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The Maryville Daily Forum (http://bit.ly/TO8e9N) reported that the Nodaway County Commission voted to disincorporate Quitman this month after a local resident asked for it.
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The experience of sixty years of Supreme Court decisions, applying an incorporated Establishment Clause to the states, has produced constitutional norms that would be very difficult to erase from our culture even if the Establishment Clause were disincorporated tomorrow.
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Thus, if we ever reach the point where the Establishment Clause has been disincorporated and no free exercise-based limitation exists on this kind of communication by state or local government, Justice Thomas's vision of the Fourteenth Amendment's impact on state policies toward religion would be quite significant indeed.
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The town council voted to disincorporate the small municipality due to a lack of funding.
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After months of debate, the residents decided to disincorporate their community to improve local governance.
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The last meeting led to a unanimous decision to disincorporate the organization, ending its legal existence.
Synonyms
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4.1
To officially end a law, system, or practice
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2.9
To stop operating permanently, like a shop or company
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4.1
To officially end an organization, agreement, or relationship
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4.3
To stop being a group, for example a band or committee
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8.6
To remove official status and government support from a church or similar group
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
disincorporate = incorporate (transparent) = dis + incorporate
With the legal sense of 'incorporate' known, the prefix 'dis-' straightforwardly signals reversal or removal of corporate status.
Etymology
The word disincorporate is made of dis- 'not' or 'undo' and incorporate, a part that comes from a root meaning 'body' and the same idea you see in corporation. So to disincorporate is to 'undo' a company or town's legal 'body', meaning to end its official existence.