Communicate /(kŏm*mū"nĭ*kāt )/

Com·mu·ni·cate

Communicate

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Communicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Communicating

  1. To share in common; to participate in. [Obs.]
    To thousands that communicate our loss.
  2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.
    Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences.
  3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.
  4. To administer the communion to. [R.]
    She [the church] . . . may communicate him.
    He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby.
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.

Communicate

v. i.
  1. To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.
    Ye did communicate with my affliction.
    — Philip. iv. 4.
  2. To give alms, sympathy, or aid.
    To do good and to communicate forget not.
    — Heb. xiii. 16.
  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.
    Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic.
    — Hakluyt.
    The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another.
  4. To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.
    The primitive Christians communicated every day.