communicate

(transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.

(transitive) To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.

• 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. -...

(transitive) To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.

• The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.

(transitive, obsolete) To share (in); to have in common, to partake of.

(intransitive, Christianity) To receive the bread and wine at a celebration of the Eucharist; to take part in Holy Communion.

• 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...
• 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. - 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of...

(transitive, Christianity) To administer the Holy Communion to (someone).

• [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. - 1660, Jeremy Taylor, “Of...

(intransitive) To express or convey ideas, either through verbal or nonverbal means; to have intercourse, to exchange information.

• Many deaf people communicate with sign language.
• I feel I hardly know him; I just wish he'd communicate with me a little more.

(intransitive) To be connected by means of an opening or channel [with with ‘another room, vessel etc.’].

• The living room communicates with the back garden by these French windows.
• There was a door in the kitchen, communicating with the forge; […] - 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter II, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861,...
• A scheme of internal staircases and upper stories enabled the rooms built upon this eastern slope to communicate with the Central Court on the crown of the hill. - 1907, Ronald M. Burrows, The Discoveries In Crete, page...