From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\ (k[o^]m*m[=u]"n[i^]*k[=a]t ), 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.]
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To thousands that communicate our loss. --B. Jonson
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2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a
disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of
a crank.
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Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his
blessings and holy influences. --Jer. Taylor.
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3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to
communicate information to any one.
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4. To administer the communion to. [R.]
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She [the church] . . . may communicate him. --Jer.
Taylor.
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Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the
person receiving, but now usually takes to after it.
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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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Communicate \Com*mu"ni*cate\, v. i.
1. To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to
have sympathy.
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Ye did communicate with my affliction. --Philip. iv.
4.
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2. To give alms, sympathy, or aid.
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To do good and to communicate forget not. --Heb.
xiii. 16.
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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.
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Subjects suffered to communicate and to have
intercourse of traffic. --Hakluyt.
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The whole body is nothing but a system of such
canals, which all communicate with one another.
--Arbuthnot.
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4. To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.
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The primitive Christians communicated every day.
--Jer. Taylor.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
communicate
v 1: transmit information ; "Please communicate this message to
all employees"; "pass along the good news" [syn:
communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, {put
across}]
2: transmit thoughts or feelings; "He communicated his anxieties
to the psychiatrist" [syn: communicate, intercommunicate]
3: transfer to another; "communicate a disease" [syn: convey,
transmit, communicate]
4: join or connect; "The rooms communicated"
5: 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: administer Communion; in church [ant: curse,
excommunicate, unchurch]
7: receive Communion, in the Catholic church [syn: commune,
communicate]