COMMUNICATE, v.t.

1. To partake of the Lord's supper. – Taylor. Instead of this, in America, at least in New England, commune is generally or always used.
2. To have a communication or passage from one to another; to have the means of passing from one to another; as, two houses communicate with each other; a fortress communicates with the country; the canals of the body communicate with each other. – Arbuthnot.
3. To have intercourse; applied to persons.
4. To have, enjoy or suffer reciprocally; to have a share with another. Ye have done well that ye did communicate with my affliction. Phil. iv.

1. To impart; to give to another, as a partaker; to confer for joint possession; to bestow, as that which the receiver is to hold, retain, use or enjoy; with to. Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. – Taylor. Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teacheth in all good things. – Gal. vi.
2. To impart reciprocally, or mutually; to have or enjoy a share of; followed by with. Common benefits are to be communicated with all, but peculiar benefits with choice. – Bacon. But Diomede desires my company, / And still communicates his praise with me. – Dryden.
3. To impart, as knowledge; to reveal; to give, as information, either by words, signs or signals; as, to communicate intelligence, news, opinions, or facts. Formerly this verb had with before the person receiving; as, “he communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby.” – Clarendon. But now it has to only.
4. To deliver, as to communicate a message; to give, as to communicate motion.

1. To share in common] to participate in.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   To thousands that communicate our loss.
   B. Jonson

2. To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.
   
   

   Ye did communicate with my affliction.
   Philip. iv. 4.

3. 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.

4. To give alms, sympathy, or aid.
   
   

   To do good and to communicate forget not.
   Heb. xiii. 16.

5. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.
6. 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.

7. To administer the communion to.
   
   
   [R.]

   She [the church] . . . may communicate him.
   Jer. Taylor.

   * 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. -- 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.

8. To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.
   
   

   The primitive Christians communicated every day.
   Jer. Taylor.