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<p><b>2.</b> <def>One who communicates.</def>

<i>Foxe.</i>

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<hw>Com*mu"ni*cant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Communicating.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Coleridge.</i>

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<hw>Com*mu"ni*cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Communicated</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Communicating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>communicatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>communicare</ets> to communicate, fr. <ets>communis</ets> common. See <er>Commune</er>, <tt>v. i.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To share in common; to participate in.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>To thousands that <b>communicate</b> our loss. <i>B. Jonson</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To impart; to convey; <as>as, to <ex>communicate</ex> a disease or a sensation; to <ex>communicate</ex> motion by means of a crank.</as></def>

<blockquote>Where God is worshiped, there he <b>communicates</b> his blessings and holy influences. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; <as>as, to <ex>communicate</ex> information to any one</as>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To administer the communion to.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>She [the church] . . . may <b>communicate</b> him. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; This verb was formerly followed by <i>with</i> before the person receiving, but now usually takes <i>to</i> after it.</note>

<blockquote>He <b>communicated</b> those thoughts only with the Lord Digby. <i>Clarendon.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell; announce; recount; make known.</syn> <usage> -- To <er>Communicate</er>, <er>Impart</er>, <er>Reveal</er>. <i>Communicate</i> is the more general term, and denotes the allowing of others to partake or enjoy in common with ourselves. <i>Impart</i> 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 <i>impart</i> our feelings; to <i>impart</i> of our property, etc. Hence there is something more intimate in <i>imparting</i> intelligence than in <i>communicating</i> it. To <i>reveal</i> is to disclose something hidden or concealed; as, to <i>reveal</i> a secret.</usage>

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<hw>Com*mu"ni*cate</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.</def>

<blockquote>Ye did <b>communicate</b> with my affliction. <i>Philip. iv. 4.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To give alms, sympathy, or aid.</def>

<blockquote>To do good and to <b>communicate</b> forget not. <i>Heb. xiii. 16.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; <as>as, to <ex>communicate</ex> with another on business</as>; to be connected; <as>as, a <ex>communicating</ex> artery</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Subjects suffered to <b>communicate</b> and to have intercourse of traffic. <i>Hakluyt.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all <b>communicate</b> with one another. <i>Arbutnot.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.</def>

<blockquote>The primitive Christians <b>communicated</b> every day. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Com*mu`ni*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>communicatio</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or fact of communicating; <as>as, <ex>communication</ex> of smallpox; <ex>communication</ex> of a secret.</as></def>