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单词 communicable
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communicableadj.

Brit. /kəˈmjuːnᵻkəbl/, U.S. /kəˈmjunəkəb(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English commynycable, 1500s communycable, 1500s– communicable.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French communicable; Latin communicabilis.
Etymology: < Middle French, French communicable affable, sociable (c1400), that may be communicated (a1481), connected, linked (1690), (of a disease) contagious (1690), and its etymon post-classical Latin communicabilis affable, sociable (late 4th cent.), capable of being communicated (late 5th cent.) < classical Latin commūnicāre communicate v. + -bilis -ble suffix. Compare Catalan comunicable (1490), Spanish comunicable (first half of the 15th cent.), Portuguese comunicável (1573), Italian comunicabile (early 14th cent.).
1. Affording communication (esp. by water); communicating; linked, connected. Now rare.In quot. a1398: from which water may pass into other streams.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > contiguous > physically communicating
communicablea1398
communicant1698
communicating1738
intercommunicating1852
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > [adjective] > connected continuously to or with > intercommunicating
communicablea1398
communicating1797
interpenetrant1848
intercommunicating1852
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xiii. xx. 665 Abissus..fongeþ neuere so moche water but it may fonge more, and may neuere be stoppid ne ylauede ne y-emptyde, and is commynycable.
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 187 Surveying the River Thames, and the Sharwell, to find if they might be made Navigable, and Communicable with the Severne and Avon.
1781 M. J. Armstrong Hist. & Antiq. Norfolk II. 96 The vale..was formerly an æstuary, communicable with the ocean at Yarmouth.
1861 J. W. Barber & H. Howe Our Whole Country I. 405 Brooklyn is..separated by the East River from the south part of New York city, and communicable with it, by numerous steam ferries.
1890 Cent. Dict. 4019/2 Its [sc. the nose's] cavities, or fossæ, freely communicable with the cavities of the mouth and lungs.
1997 O. Popescu Stud. Hist. Latin Amer. Econ. Thought ix. 150 If we do not attempt to make the interior of the kingdom communicable with the coasts, it is better not to even think of developing it.
2. Having a common or mutual relationship. Cf. communicably adv. 1. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [adjective] > pertaining in common
communicablea1529
a1529 J. Skelton Certayne Bokes (1545) sig. Cvv To the father, and the son, thou art communycable In vnitate, which is Inseperable.
3. That may be communicated, in various senses.
a. Of a quality, attribute, etc.: that may be imparted or transmitted.
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the world > movement > transference > [adjective] > transmitting or passing on > transmitted or passed on > able to be
communicablea1533
conveyable1577
transmittable1611
traducible1633
derivative1637
derivable1640
transmissible1644
propagatory1652
transmigrable1689
propagablea1707
transmissive1709
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Dd.viij The goddis..haue made all thynges communicable to men mortall, excepte immortalitie.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iv. v. sig. Ggg.iv/1 Properties of God alone, communicable to no creature.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 419 Lost bliss, to thee no more communicable . View more context for this quotation
a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) I. 324 The goodness of this World is not possibly communicable to any other world.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. IV. l. 437 The power of attracting iron, etc. possessed by the loadstone, which is also communicable to iron and steel.
1841 Western Jrnl. Med. & Surg. Nov. 332 This fever..possesses no communicable properties.
1924 G. Overton Cargoes for Crusoes v. 84 Their interest and joy is communicable to the child of four years—and they are read and re-read by boys and girls up to twelve.
1939 Centralia (Washington) Daily Chron. 28 Oct. 2/6 A form of hysteria, like the communicable excitement at a camp meeting.
2003 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 8 May (Arts & Life section) 3 A black man of stupendous girth, copious talent and communicable joy.
b. Of information, knowledge, etc.: that may be conveyed; of which an account or description can be given.
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society > communication > [adjective] > communicated > able to be
communicable1587
communicative1601
impartible1631
impartable1655
conveyable1738
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1353/1 This is all that we purposed to saie touching the monsieur, hauing omitted much that is not communicable.
1663 A. Marvell Let. 6 June in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 37 I should do it [sc. salute you] oftner were the businesse of the House so..communicable as formerly.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 124 Things not reveal'd, which th'invisible King..hath supprest in Night, To none communicable in Earth or Heaven. View more context for this quotation
?1740 Erskine tr. Trav. & Adventures Mademoiselle de Richelieu (ed. 2) II. 94 Words..are the immediate Matter of Knowledge; I mean, of Knowledge considered as communicable, or capable of being transmitted from one to another.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. xix. 97 He will..thereby spoil all the good effects he might have worked by his communicable ideas.
1836 W. B. Marshall Personal Narr. Two Visits N.Z. ii. 256 ‘Kapai! Good!’ being the only vocable by which satisfaction at the receipt of kindness is communicable.
1862 W. Hough Let. 29 Aug. in War of Rebellion (U.S. War Dept.) (1899) 2nd Ser. IV. 867 I hope you will remember the interest I officially have in such information as may be communicable.
1905 Proc. Amer. Polit. Sci. Assoc. 2 208 How much really definite and communicable information does the average mind contain on a given subject?
1931 H. Read Meaning of Art II. 114 A vision that was too mystical to be wholly communicable.
1962 K. Gallagher Philos. Gabriel Marcel i. 3 We do not grasp this as communicable information, but as a forefeeling.
1996 Church Times 21 June 17/1 They're unlikely to have the sort of qualities needed to bring back to earth a communicable vision of what they experience in space.
c. Christian Church. Of a person: eligible to receive communion; that takes communion. Cf. communicate v. 7b, communicant n. 1b. Now historical and rare.Quot. 1845 indicates use of this sense in parochial records from 1661.
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1686 N. Bisbie Bishop Visiting 25 [Communion] was seldom enough celebrated, and in some places (though a thousand communicable Persons were in them) not so much as once.
1788 J. Nichols Hist. & Antiq. Canonbury-house 12 Persons supposed to be qualified to receive the communion, such as might be styled communicable persons, rather than communicants.
1845 K. MacKenzie in New Statist. Acct. Scotl. II. 134 In the year 1661, there were 559 ‘communicable’ persons in the parish of Kinneil, the greater part of whom resided in the town of Kinneil.
1900 A. R. MacEwen Erskines iii. 41 Dunfermline at the time of his ordination had 5000 ‘communicable persons’, and was already famed for its linen industry; but religiously it was all but dead.
1987 J. P. Boulton Neighbourhood & Society ii. 18 In 1622 forty-two households contained children of communicable age.
d. Esp. of a disease: that can be transmitted directly or indirectly from one person or animal to another; infectious.
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1699 tr. M. Ettmüller Etmullerus Abridg'd i. xv. v. 255 The original of Contagion, is an active Spirituous ferment, easily communicable to the Spirits,..capable to propagate it self by a fermentative motion.]
1713 W. Cockburn Symptoms Gonorrhoea i. 2 It is infectious, and communicable by either of the Sexes to the other.
1755 Monthly Rev. Feb. 134 The plague is not communicable but by the contact of, or approach to, a person apparently infected with it.
1836 Periscope Apr. in Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 24 498/2 The influenza has been supposed by some to be communicable, by infection, from one person to another.
1869 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 483 An animal poison..communicable from person to person.
1917 H. W. Conn Bacteria, Yeasts, & Molds in Home (rev. ed.) xvi. 244 Measles is only contagious in its early stages, and a week after the patient ‘breaks out’ is no longer communicable.
1990 Countryside Winter 75/2 Congestion in the Refuge contributes to the spread of brucellosis, an infectious disease, communicable to cattle and humans.
1994 W. Farrell Myth Male Power (rev. ed.) iv. 79 One out of every twenty-one fire fighters is exposed to communicable diseases.
4. Disposed or ready to communicate or converse; = communicative adj. 7a. Now rare.
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the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective]
wordyeOE
talewisec1200
i-worded?c1225
babblinga1250
cacklinga1250
chatteringa1250
speakfula1250
word-wooda1250
of many wordsc1350
janglingc1374
tatteringc1380
tongueya1382
ganglinga1398
readya1400
jargaunt1412
talkative1432
open-moutheda1470
clattering1477
trattling?a1513
windy1513
popping1528
smatteringa1529
rattle?1529
communicablea1533
blab1552
gaggling1553
long-tongued?1553
prittle-prattle1556
pattering1558
talking1560
bobling1566
gabbling1566
verbal1572
piet1573
twattling1573
flibber gibber1575
babblative1576
tickle-tongued1577
tattling1581
buzzing1587
long-winded1589
multiloquous1591
discoursive1599
rattling1600
glib1602
flippant1605
talkful1605
nimble-tongued1608
tongue-ripe1610
fliperous1611
garrulous?1611
futile1612
overspeaking1612
feather-tongueda1618
tongue-free1617
long-breatheda1628
well-breathed1635
multiloquious1640
untongue-tied1640
unretentive1650
communicative1651
linguacious1651
glibbed1654
largiloquent1656
multiloquent1656
parlagea1657
loose-clacked1661
nimble-chop1662
twit-twat1665
over-talkativea1667
loquacious1667
loudmouth1668
conversable1673
gash1681
narrative1681
chappy1693
apposite1701
conversative1703
gabbit1710
lubricous1715
gabby?1719
ventose1721
taleful1726
chatty?1741
blethering1759
renable1781
fetch-fire1784
conversational1799
conversant1803
gashing1808
long-lunged1815
talky1815
multi-loquacious1819
prolegomenous1822
talky-talky1831
nimble-mouthed1836
slipper1842
speechful1842
gassy1843
in great force1849
yattering1859
babbly1860
irreticent1864
chattable1867
lubrical1867
chattery1869
loose-mouthed1872
chinny1883
tongue-wagging1885
yappy1909
big-mouthed1914
loose-lipped1919
ear-bashing1945
ear-bending1946
yackety-yacking1953
nattering1959
yacking1959
woofy1960
the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [adjective] > open to conversation > communicative
communicablea1533
communicative1602
conversablea1684
conversationable1843
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. G.vj Communicable and conuersaunt with many.
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Dd.vj Be great with the greattest, and communicable with your inferiours.
1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes ii. i. f. 80 v/2 Man..was a creature..sociable, communycable [Sp. communicable], and risyble.
1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd vii. 89 This retirednesse is no cure for your disease; you must be free and communicable.
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 13 I would rather prove my self to be a Gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, vertuous, and communicable, then by a fond ostentation of riches. View more context for this quotation
1764 C. Denis & R.Lloyd tr. M. Marmontel Moral Tales M. Marmontel I. 225 Clarissa..was told that real philosophers were very scarce; that they were not the most communicable men in the world.
1798 W. Hutton Life App. 120 The favourite topics of the communicable old man.
1872 W. Black Strange Adventures Phaeton xx. 285 Of a frank and communicable disposition.
1912 R. A. Freeman Myst. 31, New Inn ix. 160 A very communicable young gentleman..He seemed quite pleased to relieve the monotony of office work with a little conversation.
1949 H. Miller Sexus I. iii. 88 He looks like a superior type of man—not very communicable either.
5. Of a word or name: commonly or generally applicable to (also with). Obsolete.Esp. with reference to the names of God.
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the mind > language > linguistics > linguistic unit > word > [adjective] > relating to other specific types of word
long-tailedc1550
communicable1583
unanalogical1755
learned1869
parasynetic1885
monorrhemic1939
1583 W. Rainolds Refut. Sundry Reprehensions xii. 308 Other names of God are communicable with creatures, but the name Tetragrammaton is not so.
1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 33 The name Iehouah is..not communicable to any angel either properly or representatiuely.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 191 The Engine. This general Word, communicable to all Machins or Instruments, use..hath confined to signifie that which is used to quench Scare-fires.
1717 T. Hind Divinity of Our Saviour Prov'd 18 For never can that Name [sc. Jehovah] be communicable to any Creature.
6. Suitable for communication; (esp. of language) that conveys information effectively or clearly. rare before 20th cent.
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society > communication > [adjective] > communicating > suitable for
communicable1589
communicative1664
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. x. 133 The vulgar instruction requiring also vulgar and communicable termes, not clerkly or vncouthe.
1643 True Informer 16 In some communicable language (either in French or Latin).
1784 J. Richardson Statical Estimates Materials Brewing i. iv. 64 An instrument which will..point out the value of the liquor produced from it, in explicit and communicable terms.
1877 B. Bose New Syst. Med. 7 Maintaining that we have a healthy organ of speech, and intelligible sounds and words, but are incapable of framing a clear and communicable language.
1938 S. Box in W. Kozlenko One-act Play Today 54 He [sc. the playwright] must speak a communicable language in a communicable idiom.
1965 20th Cent. Lit. 11 72/2 The Zulu spoke no conventionally communicable language.
1998 Guardian (Nexis) 23 July 18 Mahbub's skill for formulating policy in communicable terms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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