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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]"n[i^]*k[=a]t ), 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.] [1913 Webster] To thousands that communicate our loss. --B. Jonson [1913 Webster] 2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank. [1913 Webster] Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] 3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one. [1913 Webster] 4. To administer the communion to. [R.] [1913 Webster] She [the church] . . . may communicate him. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] Note: 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. 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. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\, v. i. 1. To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy. [1913 Webster] Ye did communicate with my affliction. --Philip. iv. 4. [1913 Webster] 2. To give alms, sympathy, or aid. [1913 Webster] To do good and to communicate forget not. --Heb. xiii. 16. [1913 Webster] 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. [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] 4. To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune. [1913 Webster] The primitive Christians communicated every day. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: communicate v 1: transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news" [syn: {communicate}, {pass on}, {pass}, {pass along}, {put across}] 2: transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" [syn: {communicate}, {intercommunicate}] 3: transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: {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 [ant: {curse}, {excommunicate}, {unchurch}] 7: receive Communion, in the Catholic church [syn: {commune}, {communicate}]