To communicate or depart a thing which I haue with an other. Also to common or talke togither: to conferre connsayles. Partiri & communicare. Cicer. To communicate and make partaker. Acta sua communicare cum aliquo. Ouid. To imparte the prayse of his doinges with an other. Communicare ciuarem. Liu. To make one free of the city that was not before. Commodum communicare. Paul. To make partaker of a commodstie. Curam doloris sui cum aliquo communicare. Cic. Furtum communicare cum aliquo. Cic. To make partaker of that he hath stollen. Gloriam victoriæ cum aliquo communicare. Cic. To attribute part of the honour of the victory to one. Honores sine magistratus communicare cum plebeijs. Plin. iun. To suffer the commons to be officers as well as the nobles. Neque ijs honos vllus communicatur. Cæsar. They be not permitted to beare any office. Inimicitias communicare cum altero. Cic. To count those his enimies that be his friendes enimies. Laborem communicare. Plin. To labour togither. Laudem cum altero communicare. Cicer. To imparte his prayse and renowine to an other. Communicare aliquid cum sua laude. Cic. To mire with. Lucrum cõmunicare. Suet. To impart his gaine with other. Mensa sua communicare aliquem. Plaut. To giue meate and drinke at his table. Quædam ex maximis officijs inter libertinos militésque Romanos communicauit. Suet. He did set the common souldiours, &c. in some of the chiefe offices as well as the nobles. Pericula communicare. Cicer. To take parte of other mens daungers. Communica mecÛ hanc prouinciam, pro Adinua me. Pla. Helpe in atchieuing this matter. Impertire alicui & communicare cum eo aliquid. Cic. Ad participandum alium ab alio, communicandúmq; inter omnes, iusti natura facti sunt. Cic. Iuste men are framed of nature one to take part with an other, and to make all others pertakers of theirs. Communicare cum altero. Cæsar. To deuise and consulte with one about a matter. Vn cum aliquo communicare omnia quæ cura aliqua afficiunt. Cic. To talke and consult with one about all thing that, &c. Benignissimè communicare aliquid cum aliquo. Cic. Communicare de re aliqua. Cic. To talke with about. Communicare inter se aliquid. Cic. To denise and talke togither of some affayres. Multa de re aliqua inter se communicare. Cic. To talke togither at large of any matter. Communicare & peruulgare. Cic. Communicato inter se consilio. Liu. Hauing layed their heades togither. Res aduersas communicans amicitia, leuiores facit. Cic.

I. To divide something with one, whether in giving or receiving.

A. In giving, to divide a thing with one, to communicate, impart, to share; esp. freq. of imparting in discourse (very freq. in all periods); constr. usu. aliquid cum aliquo; also inter aliquos, alicui, aliquem aliquā re. cum aliquo de aliquā re and absol.

(a). With aliquid cum aliquo: ut si quam praestantiam virtutis, ingenii, fortunae consecuti sunt, impertiant ea suis communicentque cum proximis, Cic. Lael. 19, 70; id. Verr. 2, 5, 47, 125; id. Div. in Caecil. 11, 33: auxilium sibi te putat adjunxisse, qui cum altero rem communicat, id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116: suam causam cum Chrysogono, id. ib. 48, 140: cum iis praemium communicat, hortaturque ut, etc., Caes. B. G. 7, 37: civitatem nostram vobiscum, Liv. 23, 5, 9: causam civium cum servis fugitivis, Sall. C. 56, 5: at sua Tydides mecum communicat acta (i. e. me socium sumit actorum), Ov. M. 13, 239: consilia cum finitimis civitatibus, to make common cause, to take common counsel, commune, consult, Caes. B. G. 6, 2: cum plebeiis magistratibus, Liv. 6, 11, 7; 28, 28, 5; Suet. Calig. 56: curam doloris cum aliquo, Cic. Fam. 5, 16, 5.—Of discourse: homo, quocum omnia, quae me curā aliquā adficiunt, una communicem, Cic. Att. 1, 18, 1: ea quae didicerant, cum civibus suis communicare non poterant, id. N. D. 1, 4, 8; id. de Or. 1, 15, 66; id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116; Caes. B. G. 6, 20 al.; so cum aliquo de aliquā re: Pompeius, qui mecum... de te communicare solet, Cic. Fam. 1, 7, 3: is mecum de tuā mansione communicat, id. ib. 4, 4, 5: cum compluribus de ratione belli, Suet. Tib. 18. —

(b). Aliquid inter aliquos: cum de societate inter se multa communicarent, Cic. Quint. 4, 15: socii putandi sunt, quos inter res communicata est, id. Verr. 2, 3, 20, 50: ut quibus de rebus vellemus, tu tuis, ego meis, inter nos communicaremus, id. Fam. 15, 4, 2; 11, 27, 2: communicato inter se consilio, Liv. 8, 25, 9 (cf. a); Suet. Dom. 7.—

(g). Alicui aliquid, or de aliquā re (in Cic. only when the other party sharing is expressed by cum and abl.; cf. Krebs, Antibarb. p. 250): quibus communicare de maximis rebus Pompeius consuerat, Caes. B. C. 3, 18 (Dinter, ex conj., quibuscum): hisque omnium domus patent victusque communicatur, id. B. G. 6, 23 fin.; so with redditur, id. ib. 6, 13: sibi communicatum cum alio, non ademptum imperium esse, Liv. 22, 27, 8 Weissenb. ad loc.: id aut ereptum illis est, aut certe nobis cum illis communicatum, Cic. Brut. 73, 254; cf. id. Div. in Caecil. 4, 14 Halm ad loc.; id. Verr. 2, 5, 2, 5; id. Rosc. Am. 49, 142; Mamert. Pan. Max. 10; Cic. Pis. 39, 94 Ascon.—

(d). Aliquem aliquā re: communicabo semper te mensā meā, Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 50.—(e) Absol.: nonne prius communicatum oportuit? Ter. And. 1, 5, 4; Cic. Sull. 3, 9: et secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia et adversas partiens communicansque leviores, id. Lael. 6, 22; Quint. 9, 2, 22: ut ad se veniat rationesque belli gerendi communicet, Caes. B. G. 7, 63: consilia communicant, id. B. C. 2, 4 fin.; cf. Sall. C. 18, 5; Suet. Aug. 75 fin.; Plin. 11, 30, 36, 108; Quint. 9, 2, 22.—

2. Transf. of things: aliquid cum aliquā re, to join to an equal part, to unite: viri, quantas pecunias ab uxoribus dotis nomine acceperunt, tantas ex suis bonis cum dotibus communicant, Caes. B. G. 6, 19: privabo potius illum debito testimonio, quam id cum meā laude communicem, Cic. Ac. 2, 1, 3; id. Fam. 12, 2, 1.—

3. In late Lat.: cum aliquo or alicui, to have intercourse with an inferior: ne cum peregrinis communicarent, Just. 36, 2, 15: malis, with evil-disposed persons, Aug. Ep. 162: ne communices homini indocto, Vulg. Ecclus. 8, 5.—Also alicui rei, to take part in, Vulg. 1 Tim. 5, 22.—

B. In receiving, to share something with one, to lake or receive a part, to partake, participate in (also class.).

(a). Aliquid cum aliquo: ut me juves Conmunicesque hanc mecum meam provinciam, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 153; cf.: provinciam cum Antonio, Cic. Pis. 2, 5: inimicitias mecum, id. Fam. 15, 21, 2: qui sibi cum illo rationem communicatam putat, believes that he has all things in common with him, id. Rosc. Am. 49, 142; cf. id. ib. 48, 140; id. Div. in Caecil. 4, 14; cf. id. Verr. 2, 5, 2. 5 Zumpt; Liv. 22, 27, 8: haud dubitavit (Thalestris) fateri ad communicandos cum rege liberos se venisse, Curt. 6, 5, 30 Vogel ad loc.—

(b). Absol.: primo labores et discrimina, mox et gloriam communicabat, Tac. Agr. 8.—

(g). Alicui (late Lat.): altari Christi, to receive the sacrament, Aug. Ep. 162; id. contra Cresc. 3, 36.—

II. In Tertull., acc. to communis, II., to make common, i. e. low, base, to contaminate, defile, Tert. Spect. 17; id. Patient. 8.