[ adj ] growing by taking over and incorporating adjacent territories <adj.all> the Russian Empire was a typical incorporative state
Incorporative \In*cor"po*ra*tive\, a. Incorporating or tending to incorporate; as, the incorporative languages (as of the Basques, North American Indians, etc. ) which run a whole phrase into one word.
History demonstrates that incorporative unions are solid and permanent; but that a federal union is weak. --W. Belsham.