communicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: communicates
form: communicating
form: communicated
form: communicated
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: communicate
form: communicate
form: communicated
form: communicate
form: communicatest
form: communicated
form: communicatedst
form: communicates
form: communicateth
form: communicated
form: communicate
form: communicated
form: communicate
form: communicated
form: communicate
form: -
form: communicating
form: communicated
Etymology: Adapted borrowing of Latin commūnicāt- (past participial stem of commūnicō (“share, impart; make common”)) + -ate (verb-forming suffix), from commūnis (“common”) + -icō. Compare French communiquer and its older (and now obsolete) English cognate from Middle French, communique.
Senses: examples: text: It is vital that I communicate this information to you.
glosses: To impart.
To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
examples: text: to communicate motion by means of a crank
text: Did ye not knovv that I ought to be ib my fathers houſe? that is, there vvhere God is vvorſhipped, vvhere he communicates his bleſſing and holy influences, there and there only vve are ſure to meet our deareſt Lord.
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, “The Introduction”, in The Worthy Communicant or A Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings Consequent to the Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper […], London: […] R. Norton for John Martyn, James Allestry, and Thomas Dicas […], published 1661, →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: To impart.
To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
examples: text: The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.
glosses: To impart.
To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
examples: text: We shall now consider those functions of intelligence which man communicates with the higher beasts.
text: thousands that communicate our loss
ref: 1603 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Seianus His Fall, London: […] G[eorge] Elld, for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: To share
To share (in); to have in common, to partake of.
examples: text: It seems that now [the Devil] was driving Alison hard. She had been remiss of late—fewer souls sent to hell, less zeal in quenching the Spirit, and, above all, the crowning offense that her bairn had communicated in Christ's kirk.
ref: 1899 January – 1902 January, John Buchan, “The Watcher by the Threshold”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 213:
text: The ‘better sort’ might communicate on a separate day; and in some parishes even the quality of the communion wine varied with the social quality of the recipients.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 148:
topics: Christianity
glosses: To share
To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.
examples: text: [W]hen ſhe [the church] can underſtand that ſuch an emendation is made, and the man is really reformed, ſhe can pronounce him pardon'd, or vvhich is all one, ſhe may communicate him.
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, “Of Repentance Preparatory to the Blessed Sacrament. Sect[ion] V. What Significations of Repentance are to be Accepted by the Church in Admission of Penitents to the Communion.”, in The Worthy Communicant or A Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings Consequent to the Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper […], London: […] R. Norton for John Martyn, James Allestry, and Thomas Dicas […], published 1661, →OCLC, pages 475–476:
topics: Christianity
glosses: To share
To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).
examples: text: Many deaf people communicate with sign language.
text: I feel I hardly know him; I just wish he'd communicate with me a little more.
glosses: To share
To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.
examples: text: The living room communicates with the back garden by these French windows.
text: There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; […]
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter II, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 29:
text: A scheme of internal staircases and upper stories enabled the rooms built upon this eastern slope to communicate with the Central Court on the crown of the hill.
ref: 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page 7:
glosses: To share
To be connected by means of an opening or channel [with with ‘another room, vessel etc.’].
info_templates: extra_data: words: vessel
etc.’
expansion: [with with ‘another room, vessel etc.’]
Synonyms: word: communicate
word: articulate
Hyponyms: word: utter
word: talk
word: shout
word: listen
word: write
word: read
word: telephone
word: complain
word: inform
word: SMS
word: state
word: enounce
word: declare
word: avow
word: specify
word: announce
word: describe
word: explain
word: argue
word: prescribe
word: instruct
word: say
word: quethe
word: pronounce
word: profer
word: decree
word: assert
word: breathe
word: whisper
word: echo
word: recite
word: repeat
word: restate
word: maintain
Derived terms: communicatable
communicatee
communicatingly
communicator
incommunicated
incommunicating
intercommunicate
miscommunicate
noncommunicating
overcommunicate
recommunicate
telecommunicate
uncommunicated
uncommunicating
Related terms: communication
communion
excommunicate