v. i.
Ye did communicate with my affliction. Philip. iv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]
To do good and to communicate forget not. Heb. xiii. 16. [ 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 ]
The primitive Christians communicated every day. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
To thousands that communicate our loss. B. Jonson [ 1913 Webster ]
Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. Jer. Taylor. [ 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.