COMMUNICATE

vi to administer the communion to.

2. communicate ·vi to give alms, sympathy, or aid.

3. communicate ·vi to share in common; to participate in.

4. communicate ·vi to partake of the lord's supper; to commune.

5. communicate ·vi to share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.

6. communicate ·vi to have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery.

7. communicate ·vi to make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.

8. communicate ·vi to impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.