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Vinony

communicate

verb

  1. impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/

adj

Etymology: From Middle English communicate, an adapted borrowing of Latin commūnicātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), perfect passive participle of commūnicō (“to make commune”).

  1. Communicated, (made) commune, joined.

    “The property of the manhood is communicate with the other nature.”

    “Art..gives a natural scope, and lasting experience, to Genius. Artists are men of a communicate genius.”

verb

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.

  1. To impart.

    “It is vital that I communicate this information to you.”

  2. To impart.

    “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.”

  3. To impart.

    “The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.”

  4. To share

    “We shall now consider those functions of intelligence which man communicates with the higher beasts.”

    “thousands that communicate our loss”

  5. To share

    “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.”

  6. To share

    “[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.”

  7. To share

    “Many deaf people communicate with sign language.”

    “I feel I hardly know him; I just wish he'd communicate with me a little more.”

  8. To share

    “The living room communicates with the back garden by these French windows.”

    “There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; […]”