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communicated

Syllables: com·mu·ni·cated/kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪd/

communicated is the simple past and past participle of communicate.

Meaning of communicate

Verb

communicate (third-person singular simple present communicates, present participle communicating, simple past and past participle communicated)

  1. (transitive) To impart or transmit (information or knowledge) to someone; to make known, to tell.
    • It is vital that I communicate this information to you.
  2. (transitive) To impart or transmit (an intangible quantity, substance); to give a share of.
    • to communicate motion by means of a crank
  3. (transitive) To pass on (a disease) to another person, animal etc.
    • The disease was mainly communicated via rats and other vermin.
  4. (obsolete, transitive) To share (in); to have in common, to partake of.
    • We shall now consider those functions of intelligence which man communicates with the higher beasts.
  5. (intransitive) 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 Christ's kirk.1899 January – 1902 January, John Buchan, “The Watcher by the Threshold”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page...
  6. (transitive) 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 Repentance Preparatory to the Blessed Sacrament. Sect[ion] V. What Significations of Repentance are to be Accepted by the Church in Admission of Penitents to the Communion.”...

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Words formed from communicated

Questions about communicated

What is communicated the simple past and past participle of?
Communicated is the simple past and past participle of communicate.
How do you pronounce communicated?
Communicated is pronounced /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtɪd/.

Words near communicated in the dictionary

  1. communicably
  2. communicant
  3. communicants
  4. communicatable
  5. communicate
  6. communicated
  7. communicatee
  8. communicatees
  9. communicates
  10. communicatest
  11. communicateth

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