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siastical denunciation; fulmination. He severely threatens such with the thunderbolt of excommunication. Hakewill.

A short communication between adits in a mine.

d into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil.

smission of any knowledge, opinions, or practice, from forefathers to descendants by oral communication, without written memorials.

Transmitted or transmissible from father to son, or from age, by oral communication; traditional. [R.] Jer. Taylor. Suppose we on things traditive divide. Dryden.

Transmission from one to another. [Obs.] Traditional communication and traduction of truths. Sir M. Hale.

A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building. Gwilt.

Absence of reverse; frankness; freedom of communication. T. Warton.

That which is used as the instrument of conveyance or communication; as, matter is the vehicle of energy. A simple style forms the best vehicle of thought to a popular assembly. Wirt.

s of adjacent cars inclosed, so as to admit of leaving the doors open to provide for intercommunication between all the cars.

or sensible part; potential; energizing. Heat and cold have a virtual transition, without communication of substance. Bacon. Every kind that lives, Fomented by his virtual power, and warmed. Milton.

Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment. What will ye do in the day of visitation Isa. x. 3.

Account; tidings; message; communication; information; -- used only in the singular. I pray you . . . bring me word thither How the world goes. Shak.

rmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See Yes. Let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay. Matt. v. 37.