communicatingn.
/kəˈmjuːnᵻkeɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /kəˈmjunəˌkeɪdɪŋ/ The action of communicate v. (in various senses).
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the mind > possession > sharing > [noun]
del-takingc825
partakingc1384
partingc1384
communingc1425
participation?a1475
communicating1550
sharing1598
intercommonage1628
compartition1636
copartiality1677
deal1873
society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [noun] > attendance or partaking of
commoningc1384
communingc1425
communion1440
perceptionc1450
sumptionc1450
sustentationc1450
manducationa1513
receipt?a1513
communicating1550
communication1550
mastication1601
theanthropophagy1654
theophagy1875
1550 T. Nicolls in tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War Prol. f. iii Beyng hereunto anymated by the prayseworthy zeale, & godly wyll, which youe beare both to the encrease in vertue, and also to the communicatyng of honest laboure and exercyse vnto the benefyt of the studentes and fauorers thereof.
1559 Bp. Scot in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1824) I. ii. App. x. 30 The communicatinge, that is, the eatinge and drinkinge of the..blessed body and blood.
1644 J. Milton tr. M. Bucer Ivdgem. conc. Divorce 17 The..main end of mariage, is the communicating of all duties, both divine and humane, each to other.
1745 J. Wesley Answer to Rev. Church 36 No Fitness is required at the Time of communicating.
1787 Daily Universal Reg. 5 Jan. 4/2 The attainment of that very desirable object, the communicating of your sentiments on the subject proposed.
1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 496 A plenary may be gained every first Sunday of the month for confessing and communicating.
1865 Atlantic Monthly June 723/1 The communicating of a startling story to an uninformed superior.
1916 School Rev. 24 280 Grammar..makes possible the communicating of ideas about forming sentences.
1991 ‘C. Fremlin’ Dangerous Thoughts xvii. 113 A prolonged exercise in communication: in particular, the communicating of unflattering truths on a wide variety of topics.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
communicatingadj.
/kəˈmjuːnᵻkeɪtɪŋ/, U.S. /kəˈmjunəˌkeɪdɪŋ/ 1. That communicates (in various senses of the verb).In quot. 1646: ready to communicate, communicative.
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society > communication > [adjective] > communicating
exhibitive1607
intelligent1610
communicating1646
liaising1948
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [adjective] > that converses
dialogical?1550
dialogizing1601
commercing1610
dialogistical1623
communicating1646
dialogic1670
dialogistic1677
dialogous1737
interlocutory1866
1646 H. Lawrence Of Communion & Warre with Angels Table sig. Aa4v/1 The good Angels..are extreamly communicating to us.
1681 R. Baxter Treat. Episcopacy sig. B If three or four small Parishes make one such communicating Church, we resist not.
1695 J. Kettlewell Death made Comfortable 18 In Hearty concurrence and Communion, with all other Faithful Christians and Communicating Members of this Body.
1794 W. Peckitt Wonderful Love God to Men 160 They are then..Baptised into the Church: and..appointed its lawful communicating members in Common.
1845 Littell's Living Age 21 June 558/2 The communicating wires which will shortly be carried from Nine Elms to the Admiralty.
1883 Times 28 July 10/2 Methodists were long communicating members of the Established Church.
1930 Sci. News Let. 19 Apr. 246/1 The more powerful and exciting the situation that has occurred, the more rapid are the motions of the communicating ants.
1951 J. Z. Young Doubt & Certainty in Sci. ii. 31 Man is so much a communicating animal that when he has put his experience into words we can say that it becomes more ‘real’ for him.
1976 Times 24 Apr. 14/8 Evoking with a communicating gusto..the stews and pleasures of Elizabeth's city at the time of As You Like It.
2002 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 9 Jan. 8 The chairman of the Commission will be a lay communicating member of the Church of England.
2. Affording communication, connecting; (also) connected. Cf. communicate v. 10. communicating trench n. = communication trench n. at communication n. Compounds 3a.
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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
society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > trench > types of trench
transverse1704
front trench1847
communicating trench1857
shelter-trench1870
firing bay1885
communication trench1903
fire trench1907
funk-hole1914
support trench1914
foxhole1915
fire bay1916
slit-trench1942
1738 T. Morgan Let. to Dr. Cheyne 15 This additional quantity..will turn back the whole body of the communicating water..and give it a contrary direction.
1797 J. Curr Coal Viewer 51 The angle of the flanged end of the communicating pipes.
1828 R. Knox tr. H. Cloquet Syst. Human Anat. 674 The communicating artery of Willis, which comes from the internal carotid.
1857 T. F. Wilson Diary 19 Aug. in Def. Lucknow (1858) 117 Even through the Pucka buildings, the enemy dug communicating trenches, probably to escape the effects of our shells.
1884 N.Y. Herald 27 Oct. 2/2 Two large, communicating front Rooms.
1914 D. O. Barnett Let. in In Happy Memory (1915) 19 We couldn't go up the communicating trench to the firing line because it was full of water.
1963 Times 2 Apr. 11/4 China alleged that Indian troops had..set up a pillbox with a communicating trench on Chinese territory.
1999 Irish Times (Nexis) 27 Nov. 60 The husband who nailed up the communicating door to his wife's bedroom.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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