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a. [ Cf. F. communal. ] 1. Pertaining to a commune. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. resembling a commune{ 4 } or the practises of a commune{ 4 }; as, communal living.
Syn. -- collectivist. [ PJC ]

n. A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederation of such states, having only limited powers. It is advocated by advanced French republicans; but it should not be confounded with communism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. communaliste. ] An advocate of communalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to communalism. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Communed p. pr. & vb. n. Communing. ] [ OF. communier, fr. L. communicare to communicate, fr. communis common. See Common, and cf. Communicate. ] 1. To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would commune with you of such things
That want no ear but yours. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper. [ 1913 Webster ]

To commune under both kinds. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

To commune with one's self or
To commune with one's heart, to think; to reflect; to meditate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. commun. See Common. ] 1. The commonalty; the common people. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

In this struggle -- to use the technical words of the time -- of the “commune”, the general mass of the inhabitants, against the “prudhommes” or “wiser” few. J. R. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. See Arrondissement. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Absolute municipal self-government. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. a group of people living together as an organized community and owning in common most or all of their property and possessions, and sharing work, income, and many other aspects of daily life. Such sommunities are oftten organized based on religious or idealistic principles, and they sometimes have unconventional lifestyles, practises, or moral codes. [ PJC ]

The Commune of Paris, or
The Commune (a) The government established in Paris (1792-94) by a usurpation of supreme power on the part of representatives chosen by the communes; the period of its continuance is known as the “Reign of Terror.” (b) The revolutionary government, modeled on the commune of 1792, which the communists, so called, attempted to establish in 1871. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends. [ 1913 Webster ]

For days of happy commune dead. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. communicabilité. ] The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. communicable, LL. communicabilis. ] 1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Communicative; free-speaking. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson.

-- Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Com*mu"ni*ca"bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. communicans, p. pr. ] 1. One who partakes of, or is entitled to partake of, the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member. [ 1913 Webster ]

A never-failing monthly communicant. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who communicates. Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Communicating. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Communicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Communicating. ] [ L. communicatus, p. p. of communicare to communicate, fr. communis common. See Commune, v. i. ] 1. To share in common; to participate in. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To thousands that communicate our loss. B. Jonson [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To administer the communion to. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She [ the church ] . . . may communicate him. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This verb was formerly followed by with before the person receiving, but now usually takes to after it. [ 1913 Webster ]

He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby. Clarendon.

Syn. -- To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell; announce; recount; make known. -- To Communicate, Impart, Reveal. Communicate is the more general term, and denotes the allowing of others to partake or enjoy in common with ourselves. Impart is more specific. It is giving to others a part of what we had held as our own, or making them our partners; as, to impart our feelings; to impart of our property, etc. Hence there is something more intimate in imparting intelligence than in communicating it. To reveal is to disclose something hidden or concealed; as, to reveal a secret. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ye did communicate with my affliction. Philip. iv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give alms, sympathy, or aid. [ 1913 Webster ]

To do good and to communicate forget not. Heb. xiii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic. Hakluyt. [ 1913 Webster ]

The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune. [ 1913 Webster ]

The primitive Christians communicated every day. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the activity of communicating.
Syn. -- communication. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. communicatio. ] 1. The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Argument . . . and friendly communication. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Association; company. [ 1913 Webster ]

Evil communications corrupt good manners. 1 Cor. xv. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Participation in the Lord's supper. Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Rhet.) A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you. Beattie.

Syn. -- Correspondence; conference; intercourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. used in communication; as, he had few communicational grooves available for use. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. F. Communicatif, LL. communicativus. ] Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others. [ 1913 Webster ]

Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being communicative. Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who communicates. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. communicatorius. ] Imparting knowledge or information. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canonical and communicatory letters. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. communio: cf. F. communion. See Common. ] 1. The act of sharing; community; participation. “This communion of goods.” Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Intercourse between two or more persons; esp., intimate association and intercourse implying sympathy and confidence; interchange of thoughts, purposes, etc.; agreement; fellowship; as, the communion of saints. [ 1913 Webster ]

We are naturally induced to seek communion and fellowship with others. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

What communion hath light with darkness? 2 Cor. vi. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bare communion with a good church can never alone make a good man. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A body of Christians having one common faith and discipline; as, the Presbyterian communion. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The sacrament of the eucharist; the celebration of the Lord's supper; the act of partaking of the sacrament; as, to go to communion; to partake of the communion; called also Holy Communion. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Close communion. See under Close, a. --
Communion elements, the bread and wine used in the celebration of the Lord's supper. --
Communion service, the celebration of the Lord's supper, or the office or service therefor. --
Communion table, the table upon which the elements are placed at the celebration of the Lord's supper. --
Communion in both kinds, participation in both the bread and wine by all communicants. --
Communion in one kind, participation in but one element, as in the Roman Catholic Church, where the laity partake of the bread only.

Syn. -- Share; participation; fellowship; converse; intercourse; unity; concord; agreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. communisme, fr. commun common. ] A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ At different times, and in different countries, various schemes pertaining to socialism in government and the conditions of domestic life, as well as in the distribution of wealth, have been called communism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. communiste. ] 1. An advocate for the theory or practice of communism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A supporter of the commune of Paris. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to communism or communists; as, communistic theories. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Living or having their nests in common, as certain birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Communities [ L. communitas: cf. OF. communité. Cf. Commonalty, and see Common. ] 1. Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

The original community of all things. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

An unreserved community of thought and feeling. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests. [ 1913 Webster ]

Creatures that in communities exist. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Society at large; a commonwealth or state; a body politic; the public, or people in general. [ 1913 Webster ]

Burdens upon the poorer classes of the community. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this sense, the term should be used with the definite article; as, the interests of the community. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Common character; likeness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Commonness; frequency. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Eyes . . . sick and blunted with community. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship. [ 1913 Webster ]

Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>v. t. [ Cf. F. excommuier. See Excommunicate. ] To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Poets . . . were excommuned Plato's common wealth Gayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Excommunicate. ] Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper. “Persons excommunicable .” Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

What offenses are excommunicable ? Kenle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has been excommunicated. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. excommunicatus, p. p. of communicare to excommunicate; ex out + communicare. See Communicate. ] Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. -- n. One excommunicated. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Excommunicated p. pr. & vb. n. Excommunicating ] 1. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical sentence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict. [ 1913 Webster ]

Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that excommunicated the reading of heretical books. Miltin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. excommunicatio: cf. F. excommunication. ] The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ excommunication is of two kinds, the lesser and the greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or suspension from partaking of the Eucharist; the greater is an absolute execution of the offender from the church and all its rights and advantages, even from social intercourse with the faithful. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ Cf. LL. excommunicator. ] One who excommunicates. [ 1913 Webster ]

A shutting out from communion; excommunication. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Excommunication is the utmost of ecclesiastical judicature. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. incommunicabilité. ] The quality or state of being incommunicable, or incapable of being imparted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incommunicabilis: cf. F. incommunicable. See In- not, and Communicable. ] Not communicable; incapable of being communicated, shared, told, or imparted, to others. [ 1913 Webster ]

Health and understanding are incommunicable. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those incommunicable relations of the divine love. South.

-- In`com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not communicated or imparted. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no communion or intercourse with each other. [ Obs. ] Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or intercourse with others; exclusive. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Chinese . . . an incommunicative nation. C. Buchanan.

-- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ly, adv. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ness, n. Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

His usual incommunicativeness. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Intercommuned p. pr. & vb. n. Intercommuning. ] [ Cf. Intercommon, Intercommunicate, Commune. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To intercommunicate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To have mutual communication or intercourse by conversation. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being mutually communicated. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To communicate mutually; to interchange. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Mutual communication. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Mutual communion; as, an intercommunion of deities. Faber. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Intercommunication; community of possessions, religion, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

In consequence of that intercommunity of paganism . . . one nation adopted the gods of another. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Neglect or failure of communion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. post- + communion. ] 1. (Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.) The concluding portion of the communion service. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R. C. Ch.) A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after the ablutions. [ 1913 Webster ]