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Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.

rtake of, the sacrament of the Lord's supper; a church member. A never-failing monthly communicant. Atterbury.

To share in common; to participate in. [Obs.] To thousands that communicate our loss. B. Jonson

The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others. Determine, for the future, to be less communicative. Swift.

The quality of being communicative. Norris.

One who communicates. Boyle.

Imparting knowledge or information. Canonical and communicatory letters. Barrow.

The act of sharing; community; participation. "This communion of goods." Blackstone.

A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally to all, or by holding all wealth in common for the equal use and advantage of all.

An advocate for the theory or practice of communism.

Of or pertaining to communism or communists; as, communistic theories.

Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods. The original community of all things. Locke. An unreserved community of thought and feeling. W. Irwing.

A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship. Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent. Darwin.

Any organ or part of the body (as the kidneys, skin, etc.,) which serves to carry off excrementitious or waste matter.

To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate. [Obs.] Poets . . . were excommuned Plato's common wealth Gayton.

Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; making excommunication possible or proper. "Persons excommunicable ." Bp. Hall. What offenses are excommunicable Kenle.

One who has been excommunicated.

Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. -- n.

The act of communicating or ejecting; esp., an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.