*communicat*

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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

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

n. Mutual communication. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Imparting or communicating by its own powers. [ 1913 Webster ]

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