communicablyadv.
/kəˈmjuːnᵻkəbli/, U.S. /kəˈmjunəkəbli/ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > relevance or pertinence > [adverb] > in a manner pertaining in common
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1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. vi. 11 Waters Transient are Riuers, Brookes, Flouds..which passing beyond the extention and priuiledge of the Plot are communicably imparted to it and to some other.
2. In a communicable manner; in respect of or as regards communication.
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > [adverb]
communicably1652
communicationally1925
the world > space > distance > nearness > [adverb] > contiguously > in such a way as to communicate
communicably1652
1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie Introd. sig. C3v A privilege conferred on Heber..was not such a privilege, or given so universally and communicably to the house of Heber, as they say it was.
a1677 I. Barrow Brief Expos. Creed (1697) 262 Divine properties and perfections, communicably peculiar to God.
1831 Morning Watch Mar. 35 The Holy Ghost,..who alone proceedeth, alone knoweth communicably the deep things of God.
1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors (ed. 2) II. ii. 24 One subject, conceived by her only of late, and not intelligibly, not communicably: a subject thickly veiled.
1951 Philos. East & West 1 27 All the energy we know and can speak communicably about, including potential energy, is energy of position, motion, structure.
1991 J. Lockyer Ordered by Words iii. 87 Through the narrator, Faulkner steps back a bit from the individual consciousness to explore the ways that language functions communicably.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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