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ArsenicateArsenicate Ar*sen"i*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arsenicated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Arsenicating.]
To combine with arsenic; to treat or impregnate with arsenic. ArsenicatedArsenicate Ar*sen"i*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arsenicated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Arsenicating.]
To combine with arsenic; to treat or impregnate with arsenic. ArsenicatingArsenicate Ar*sen"i*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arsenicated;
p. pr. & vb. n. Arsenicating.]
To combine with arsenic; to treat or impregnate with arsenic. Canonicate
Canonicate Ca*non"i*cate, n. [LL. canonucatus canonical: cf.
F. canonicat.]
The office of a canon; a canonry.
CommunicateCommunicate Com*mu"ni*cate, 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.]
To thousands that communicate our loss. --B. Jonson
2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a
disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of
a crank.
Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his
blessings and holy influences. --Jer. Taylor.
3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to
communicate information to any one.
4. To administer the communion to. [R.]
She [the church] . . . may communicate him. --Jer.
Taylor.
Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the
person receiving, but now usually takes to after it.
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. CommunicatedCommunicate Com*mu"ni*cate, 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.]
To thousands that communicate our loss. --B. Jonson
2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a
disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of
a crank.
Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his
blessings and holy influences. --Jer. Taylor.
3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to
communicate information to any one.
4. To administer the communion to. [R.]
She [the church] . . . may communicate him. --Jer.
Taylor.
Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the
person receiving, but now usually takes to after it.
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. CommunicatingCommunicate Com*mu"ni*cate, 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.]
To thousands that communicate our loss. --B. Jonson
2. To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a
disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of
a crank.
Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his
blessings and holy influences. --Jer. Taylor.
3. To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to
communicate information to any one.
4. To administer the communion to. [R.]
She [the church] . . . may communicate him. --Jer.
Taylor.
Note: This verb was formerly followed by with before the
person receiving, but now usually takes to after it.
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. Communicative
Communicative Com*mu"ni*ca*tive, a. [Cf. F. Communicatif, LL.
communicativus.]
Inclined to communicate; ready to impart to others.
Determine, for the future, to be less communicative.
--Swift.
Communicativeness
Communicativeness Com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ness, n.
The quality of being communicative. --Norris.
Communicator
Communicator Com*mu"ni*ca`tor, n. [L.]
One who communicates. --Boyle.
Communicatory
Communicatory Com*mu"ni*ca"to*ry, a. [LL. communicatorius.]
Imparting knowledge or information.
Canonical and communicatory letters. --Barrow.
Confidential communicationConfidential Con`fi*den"tial, a. [Cf. F. confidentiel.]
1. Enjoying, or treated with, confidence; trusted in;
trustworthy; as, a confidential servant or clerk.
2. Communicated in confidence; secret. ``Confidential
messages.' --Burke.
Confidential communication (Law) See Privileged
communication, under Privileged.
Confidential creditors, those whose claims are of such a
character that they are entitled to be paid before other
creditors.
Confidential debts, debts incurred for borrowed money, and
regarded as having a claim to be paid before other debts.
--McElrath. Crepidula fornicataSweetmeat Sweet"meat`, n.
1. Fruit preserved with sugar, as peaches, pears, melons,
nuts, orange peel, etc.; -- usually in the plural; a
confect; a confection.
2. The paint used in making patent leather.
3. (Zo["o]l.) A boat shell (Crepidula fornicata) of the
American coast. [Local, U.S.] ExcommunicateExcommunicate Ex"com*mu"ni*cate, a. [L. excommunicatus, p. p.
of communicare to excommunicate; ex out + communicare. See
Communicate.]
Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. --
n. One excommunicated.
Thou shalt stand cursed and excommunicate. --Shak. ExcommunicateExcommunicate Ex`com*mu"ni*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Excommunicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Excommunicating.]
1. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut
out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical
sentence.
2. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that
excommunicated the reading of heretical books.
--Miltin. ExcommunicatedExcommunicate Ex`com*mu"ni*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Excommunicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Excommunicating.]
1. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut
out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical
sentence.
2. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that
excommunicated the reading of heretical books.
--Miltin. ExcommunicatingExcommunicate Ex`com*mu"ni*cate, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Excommunicated; p. pr. & vb. n. Excommunicating.]
1. To put out of communion; especially, to cut off, or shut
out, from communion with the church, by an ecclesiastical
sentence.
2. To lay under the ban of the church; to interdict.
Martin the Fifth . . . was the first that
excommunicated the reading of heretical books.
--Miltin. Excommunication
Excommunication Ex`com*mu`ni*ca"tion, n. [L. excommunicatio:
cf. F. excommunication.]
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.
Note: excommunication is of two kinds, the lesser and the
greater; the lesser excommunication is a separation or
suspension from partaking of the Eucharist; the greater
is an absolute execution of the offender from the
church and all its rights and advantages, even from
social intercourse with the faithful.
Excommunication by inch of candleCandle Can"dle, n. [OE. candel, candel, AS, candel, fr. L.
candela a (white) light made of wax or tallow, fr. cand["e]re
to be white. See Candid, and cf. Chandler, Cannel,
Kindle.]
1. A slender, cylindrical body of tallow, containing a wick
composed of loosely twisted linen of cotton threads, and
used to furnish light.
How far that little candle throws his beams! So
shines a good deed in a naughty world. --Shak.
Note: Candles are usually made by repeatedly dipping the
wicks in the melted tallow, etc. (``dipped candles'),
or by casting or running in a mold.
2. That which gives light; a luminary.
By these blessed candles of the night. --Shak.
Candle nut, the fruit of a euphorbiaceous shrub (Aleurites
triloba), a native of some of the Pacific islands; --
socalled because, when dry, it will burn with a bright
flame, and is used by the natives as a candle. The oil has
many uses.
Candle power (Photom.), illuminating power, as of a lamp,
or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard
candle.
Electric candle, A modification of the electric arc lamp,
in which the carbon rods, instead of being placed end to
end, are arranged side by side, and at a distance suitable
for the formation of the arc at the tip; -- called also,
from the name of the inventor, Jablockoff candle.
Excommunication by inch of candle, a form of
excommunication in which the offender is allowed time to
repent only while a candle burns.
Not worth the candle, not worth the cost or trouble.
Rush candle, a candle made of the pith of certain rushes,
peeled except on one side, and dipped in grease.
Sale by inch of candle, an auction in which persons are
allowed to bid only till a small piece of candle burns
out.
Standard candle (Photom.), a special form of candle
employed as a standard in photometric measurements;
usually, a candle of spermaceti so constructed as to burn
at the rate of 120 grains, or 7.8 grams, per hour.
To curse by bell, book and candle. See under Bell. Excommunicator
Excommunicator Ex`com*mu"ni*ca`tor
. [Cf. LL. excommunicator.]
One who excommunicates.
Fornicate
Fornicate For"ni*cate, Fornicated For"ni*ca`ted, a. [L.
fornicatus, fr. fornix, -icis, an arch, vault.]
1. Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.
2. (Bot.) Arching over; overarched. --Gray.
Fornicate
Fornicate For"ni*cate, v. i. [L. fornicatus, p. p. of
fornicari to fornicate, fr. fornix, -icis, a vault, a brothel
in an underground vault.]
To commit fornication; to have unlawful sexual intercourse.
Fornicated
Fornicate For"ni*cate, Fornicated For"ni*ca`ted, a. [L.
fornicatus, fr. fornix, -icis, an arch, vault.]
1. Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.
2. (Bot.) Arching over; overarched. --Gray.
Fornication
Fornication For`ni*ca"tion, n. [F. fornication, L.
fornicatio.]
1. Unlawful sexual intercourse on the part of an unmarried
person; the act of such illicit sexual intercourse between
a man and a woman as does not by law amount to adultery.
Note: In England, the offense, though cognizable in the
ecclesiastical courts, was not at common law subject to
secular prosecution. In the United States it is
indictable in some States at common law, in others only
by statute. --Whartyon.
2. (Script.)
(a) Adultery.
(b) Incest.
(c) Idolatry.
Fornicator
Fornicator For"ni*ca`tor, n. [F. fornicateur, OF. fornicator,
from L. fornicator.]
An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal
intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.
Fornicatress
Fornicatress For"ni*ca`tress, n. [Cf. F. fornicatrice, L.
fornicatrix.]
A woman guilty of fornication. --Shak.
Incommunicated
Incommunicated In`com*mu"ni*ca`ted, a.
Not communicated or imparted. [Obs.] --Dr. H. More.
Incommunicating
Incommunicating In`com*mu"ni*ca`ting, a.
Having no communion or intercourse with each other. [Obs.]
--Sir M. Hale.
IncommunicativeIncommunicative In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive, a.
Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in
conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was
incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or
intercourse with others; exclusive.
The Chinese . . . an incommunicative nation. --C.
Buchanan.
-- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ly, adv. --
In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ness, n. --Lamb.
His usual incommunicativeness. --G. Eliot. IncommunicativelyIncommunicative In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive, a.
Not communicative; not free or apt to impart to others in
conversation; reserved; silent; as, the messenger was
incommunicative; hence, not disposed to hold fellowship or
intercourse with others; exclusive.
The Chinese . . . an incommunicative nation. --C.
Buchanan.
-- In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ly, adv. --
In`com*mu"ni*ca*tive*ness, n. --Lamb.
His usual incommunicativeness. --G. Eliot.
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