Communicate

Com`mu´ni`cate Pronunciation: kǒm`mū´nĭ`kāt

v. t.	1.	To share in common; to participate in. [imp. & p. p. Communicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Communicating.] 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. She [the church] . . . may communicate him. - Jer. Taylor. He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby. - Clarendon.
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. - Arbuthnot.
	4.	To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune. The primitive Christians communicated every day. - Jer. Taylor.

Verb	1.	communicate - transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to all employees" Synonyms: put across, pass on, pass
	2.	communicate - transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist" Synonyms: intercommunicate
	3.	communicate - transfer to another; "communicate a disease" Synonyms: transmit, convey
	4.	communicate - join or connect; "The rooms communicated"
	5.	communicate - be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas; "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; "Do you communicate well with your advisor?"
	6.	communicate - administer communion; in church Antonyms: excommunicate, curse - exclude from a church or a religious community; "The gay priest was excommunicated when he married his partner"
	7.	communicate - receive Communion, in the Catholic church Synonyms: commune

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