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English Dictionary: communicable by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communicable
adj
  1. (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection
    Synonym(s): catching, communicable, contagious, contractable, transmissible, transmittable
  2. readily communicated; "communicable ideas"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Communicable \Com*mu"ni*ca*ble\, a. [Cf. F. communicable, LL.
      communicabilis.]
      1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a
            communicable disease; communicable knowledge.
  
      2. Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. --
            {Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca"bly}, adv.
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