communicate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: Christianity
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.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: communicates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: communicating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: communicated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: communicated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: communicate
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: communicate
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: communicated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: communicate
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: communicatest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: communicated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: communicatedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: communicates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: communicateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: communicated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: communicate
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: communicated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: communicate
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: communicated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: communicate
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: communicating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: communicated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To impart.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: It is vital that I communicate this information to you.
gloss: To impart.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to communicate motion by means of a crank
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.
gloss: To impart.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.
gloss: To share
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: We shall now consider those functions of intelligence which man communicates with the higher beasts.
thousands that communicate our loss
gloss: To share
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To share
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: [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.
gloss: To share
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Many deaf people communicate with sign language.
I feel I hardly know him; I just wish he'd communicate with me a little more.
gloss: To share
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The living room communicates with the back garden by these French windows.
There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; […]
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.
Synonyms: articulate
common
communicate
convey
express
make known
outspeak
portray
put
utter
Related words: communication
communion
excommunicate
Derived words: communicatable
communicatee
communicatingly
communicator
incommunicated
incommunicating
intercommunicate
miscommunicate
noncommunicating
overcommunicate
recommunicate
telecommunicate
uncommunicated
uncommunicating
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