Communication

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Association; company.

II. Communication ·noun Participation in the Lord's supper.

III. Communication ·noun That which is communicated or imparted; intelligence; news; a verbal or written message.

IV. Communication ·noun The act or fact of communicating; as, communication of smallpox; communication of a secret.

V. Communication ·noun Means of communicating; means of passing from place to place; a connecting passage; connection.

VI. Communication ·noun A trope, by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says we, instead of I or you.

VII. Communication ·noun Intercourse by words, letters, or messages; interchange of thoughts or opinions, by conference or other means; conference; correspondence.

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