Hypertext Webster Gateway: "communicable"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Communicable \Com*mu"ni*ca*ble\, a. [Cf. F. communicable, LL.
communicabilis.]
1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a
communicable disease; communicable knowledge.
2. Communicative; free-speaking. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. --
{Com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness}, n. -- {Com*mu"ni*ca"bly}, adv.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
communicable
adj 1: (of disease) capable of being transmitted by infection [syn:
{catching}, {contagious}, {contractable}, {transmissible},
{transmittable}]
2: readily communicated; "communicable ideas"
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