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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\, 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.] To thousands that communicate our loss --B. Jonson 2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. --Jer. Taylor. 3. To make known to recount; to give to impart; as to communicate information to any one 4. To administer the communion to [R.] She [the church] . . . may communicate him --Jer. Taylor. Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the person receiving, but now usually takes to after it He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby --Clarendon. Syn: To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell announce; recount; make known Usage: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\, v. i. 1. To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy. Ye did communicate with my affliction. --Philip. iv 4. 2. To give alms, sympathy, or aid. To do good and to communicate forget not --Heb. xiii. 16. 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. Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic. --Hakluyt. The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another. --Arbuthnot. 4. To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune. The primitive Christians communicated every day --Jer. Taylor. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: communicate v 1: let know pass information on (to someone); "Please communicate this message to all employees" [syn: {pass on}, {pass}, {put across}] 2: transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" [syn: {intercommunicate}] 3: transfer or deliver to another, as of information; "convey the news to everyone" [syn: {convey}, {transmit}] 4: join or connect; "The rooms communicated" 5: administer communion; in church [ant: {excommunicate}] 6: receive Communion, in the Catholic church [syn: {commune}]
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