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   Communicate , 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.]
   To share in common; to participate in. [Obs.]
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   To thousands that communicate our loss.
   B. Jonson
   
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   To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.
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   Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences.
   Jer. Taylor.
   
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   To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.
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   To administer the communion to. [R.]
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   She [the church] . . . may communicate him.
   Jer. Taylor.
   
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   ☞ This verb was formerly followed by with before the person receiving, but now usually takes to after it.
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   He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby.
   Clarendon.
   Syn. -- To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell; announce; recount; make known.  -- 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.
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   Communicate, v. i.
   To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.
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   Ye did communicate with my affliction.
   Philip. iv. 4.
   
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   To give alms, sympathy, or aid.
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   To do good and to communicate forget not.
   Heb. xiii. 16.
   
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   To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery.
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   Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic.
   Hakluyt.
   
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   The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another.
   Arbuthnot.
   
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   To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.
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   The primitive Christians communicated every day.
   Jer. Taylor.
   
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