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English Dictionary: communicate by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communicate
v
  1. transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news"
    Synonym(s): communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, put across
  2. transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist"
    Synonym(s): communicate, intercommunicate
  3. transfer to another; "communicate a disease"
    Synonym(s): convey, transmit, communicate
  4. join or connect; "The rooms communicated"
  5. be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas; "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; "Do you communicate well with your advisor?"
  6. administer Communion; in church
    Antonym(s): curse, excommunicate, unchurch
  7. receive Communion, in the Catholic church
    Synonym(s): commune, communicate
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.
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