Hypertext Webster Gateway: "communicated"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\, 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.]
1. To share in common; to participate in. [Obs.]

To thousands that communicate our loss. --B. Jonson

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. --Jer. Taylor.

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. --Jer.
Taylor.

Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the
person receiving, but now usually takes to after it.

He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord
Digby. --Clarendon.

Syn: To impart; bestow; confer; reveal; disclose; tell;
announce; recount; make known.

Usage: 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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