communicantadj.n.

Brit.

/kəˈmjuːnᵻk(ə)nt/, U.S.

/kəˈmjunək(ə)nt/

Forms: late Middle English comunycant, late Middle English comunicante, 1500s–1600s communicante, 1500s– communicant; Scottish pre-1700 comunicant, pre-1700 1700s– communicant.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French communiquant; Latin commūnicant-, commūnicāns, communicant-, communicans, commūnicāre.

Etymology: As adjective < (i) Middle French communiquant shared (15th cent. in the passage translated in quot. a1500 at sense A. 2a; French communicant , now only in sense ‘affording communication, connected’ (1761)), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin commūnicant-, commūnicāns, present participle of commūnicāre communicate v., in post-classical Latin used as adjective in sense A. 2b (13th cent.). As noun < (iii) post-classical Latin communicant-, communicans, usually in plural, communicantes those who are in communion with the church (3rd cent.), those who join in the prayers of the people (5th cent.), those who are joined in communion (6th cent.), use as noun of classical Latin commūnicant-, commūnicāns. Compare Spanish comunicante (15th cent.), Portuguese comunicante (15th cent.), Italian comunicante (14th cent.).

A. adj.

†1. = communicate adj. Obsolete. rare.Perhaps a scribal error for comunicate (cf. quot. ?a1425 at communicate adj.).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > sharing > [adjective] > shared

i-menec1000

meanOE

ymonec1275

commonc1300

communicant?a1425

joint1424

communicate1561

shared1598

meta1631

intercommoneda1774

participate1850

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 135 (MED) Causes..complexionale & comunicante [?c1425 Paris communede; L. comunicate]..haþ þair ymakyng & beyng ymade as was said of þe eien.

†a. That has a part in common; participating, sharing, shared. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [adjective] > participating

joint1424

communicanta1500

comparticipant1582

participating1643

participative1705

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) 71 Hath not the commiccion of man his comunycant beyng [Fr. son estre communiquant] with..his vndirstonding with angelys?

1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 16 To be..communicant with him in his roiall dignitie.

1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 215 And nature make communicant of Heaven.

1849 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought (ed. 2) xxxi. 136 So that the species are not mutually opposed, but overlapping—or as Leibniz would say, communicant species.

1870 F. C. Bowen Logic v. 115 Two communicant or overlapping Genera.

b. Mathematics. = commensurable adj. 1. rare. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > describing relationships between quantities > commensurable

commensurable1557

communicant1557

symmetrala1690

commensurate1690

homogeneous1695

1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Liii^v If the remainer, and the roote in the quotiente, bee nombers communicante, diuide them so.

1965 Isis 56 334 In Campanus of Novara's 13th-century edition of Euclid's Elements, Bk. VII, Def. 8, defines ‘communicant’ numbers as follows.

3. Christian Church. That partakes of communion; that is a communicant (sense B. 1); that is in communion with the church, or with a particular church. rare before 19th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [adjective] > receiving

communicant1563

theophagous1880

communing1887

1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 90 To aduertis the peple communicant quhou thai suld behaif thame in the mein tyme.

1814 B. Kohlmeister & G. Kmoch Jrnl. Voy. from Okkak ii. 10 He had formerly been a communicant member of Okkak congregation.

1834 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) III. 9 What will become of the poor who are now communicant with the Church?

1866 Church Times 10 Feb. Forty thousand English communicant Churchmen.

1908 Times 18 June 4/5 All candidates must be communicant members of the Church of England.

1967 Musical Times 108 850/2 Applicants, who should be communicant churchmen, are invited to write to The Vicar.

2002 R. Strong Episcopalianism 19th-Cent. Scotl. i. 22 He believed the [Scottish] Episcopal Church would be strengthened by the inclusion of communicant laymen as a third chamber of the General Synod.

†4. Affording communication, connecting; = communicating adj. 2. Chiefly of arteries. Cf. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > contiguous > physically communicating

communicablea1398

communicant1698

communicating1738

intercommunicating1852

1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies App. to 3rd Table, sig. Kkk/1 The Communicant Branches between the Carotid and Vertebral Arteries.

1703 W. Cowper in Philos. Trans. 1702–03 (Royal Soc.) 23 1391 The Communicant branches of the Arteries.

1713 W. Cheselden Anat. Humane Body iii. x. 127 The larger Trunks are every where attended with small Glands, thro' which they run, and..send communicant Branches over them.

1778 Anat. Dialogues vi. 274 Very often there is a branch of communication between the brachial and cubital arteries. This communicant branch is sometimes very large.

1845 Brit. & Foreign Railway Rev. 17 Nov. 202 He [sc. Thomas Gray]..inculcated the best modus operandi of laying down direct trunk lines, with communicant branches.

B. n.

1. Christian Church.

a. A person who partakes of or receives communion on a particular occasion. Cf. communicate v. 7a.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [noun] > participant

sacramenter1536

communer1548

communicant1552

communionist1851

1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16280.5) Administr. Lordes Supper (Declar. on Kneeling) sig. O.i The Communicantes knelyng, should receiue the holy Communion.

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 469 What the priest shall doe when there are no communicants.

1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 47 a His body is offred, and ministred to the communicants.

1698 J. Savage Hist. Poland II. ii. 41 The Communicants follow the Priest thrice about the Altar.

1735 J. Wesley Wks. I I..administered the Lord's supper to six or seven communicants.

1790 R. Robinson Hist. Baptism xvi. 99 The priests gave the communicants bread and wine.

1843 H. S. Thirlway Jrnl. 25 Dec. (1996) vi. 45 Received Sacrament[.] I never saw so many communicants at one time before.

1884 R. W. Dale Man. Congregational Princ. iii. i. 124 The sacramental act..is completed when the communicants receive both the bread and the cup.

1924 Times 10 July 10/2 A communicant ‘deprived of the cup’ through a change of discipline in Church authority is not denied of a complete reception of Christ Himself in communion.

1971 Order for Holy Communion (Alternative Services Series 3) 31 The president and the other communicants receive the holy communion. At the administration the ministers say to each communicant, [etc.].

2001 Church Times 19 Jan. 13/5 The Queen [sc. Victoria] was probably happiest attending the kirk at Crathie, where on occasion she would slip out of her pew to join the communicants on Sacrament Sunday.

b. A person who regularly or habitually takes communion, or is eligible to do so; (more generally) a member of a congregation.The sense appears to have arisen in the context of enumerating the members of a community, where it may originally have denoted simply any person of an age fit to receive communion.In certain denominations which observe close communion (see close communion n. at close adj. and adv. Compounds 3), used to denote a person who has received baptism in accordance with the tenets of the church.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family or household > member of household

familiara1250

domestic1539

domestical?c1550

communicant1577

hoghenhine1607

familist1631

mainpast1865

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > household > member of

familiara1250

domestic1539

domestical?c1550

communicant1577

inmate1589

hoghenhine1607

familist1631

mainpast1865

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. vii. f. 82^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I In [market towns] there are..comonly three hundred or foure hundred families or mansion houses, and two thousande communicantes..[in country districts] we finde not often aboue fourtie or fiftie householdes, and two hundred communicantes.

1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 354 The parish of S. Giles which hath more then 1800. Householders, and aboue 4000. Communicantes.

1609 W. Symonds Virginia: Serm. 20 [They] conuert towneships, in which were a hundreth or two hundreth communicants, to a shepheard & his dog.

1633 W. Guild Hvmble Addresse 12 So manie thousandes of Communicantes..that dwell in the utmost and remotest parts.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. x. 236 There are little less than 1500 Communicants in that Parish.

a1725 J. Johnson Coll. Disc., Diss., & Serm. (1728) I. i. iii. 187 I will leave it to themselves to judge, whether..they can be said to be habitual Communicants.

1761 T. Jeffreys Descr. Maritime Parts France 126/2 The town of St. Valery..and the other suburbs, contain about three thousand five hundred communicants.

1791 J. Townsend Journey Spain I. 397 This parish contains one hundred and fifty families, consisting of seven hundred communicants.

1845 G. Lewis Impressions of Amer. & Amer. Churches vi. 157 The Baptists report that they have in Alabama..11,445 communicants or members.

1853 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (ed. 2) 105 The minister and wardens undertook to go from house to house to take the names of the communicants.

1911 Eng. Hist. Rev. 26 417 At the time of Charles the Bold there were 2,200 households. These had sunk in 1514 to 1,118 (3,600 communicants).

1919 Times 16 Sept. 6/2 Might it not be an established rule that a communicant of one Church prevented from his ordinary means of Communion by sickness or absence of ministers of his own Church, might receive the Communion from ministers of another Church?

1962 J. Nef Search for Civilization iii. 64 The number of Christian communicants in Africa represents only a small proportion of the inhabitants.

2006 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 12 May Our prayers and thanks go out, especially to the clergy, staff, and communicants of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

†2. A person who participates or shares in something. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 380 He could not abide, others to be communicants and partakers of that which hee knewe, but himselfe to haue the vnderstanding of that onely and alone, whereof others should be ignoraunt.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 184 As they communicate with vs in all qualities,..so why ought they not in any waise but be made communicantes with vs in education?

1829 E. Hicks Let. 3 Apr. (1834) 218 Sufficient to introduce him into the knowledge of his Creator, and prepare him to be a communicant with him in the realms of blessedness.

a. A person who or (occasionally) thing which imparts or communicates information (or, in early use, any abstract quality); an informant; the source or originator of a communication. rare before 19th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > [noun] > giver > one who imparts

communicant1597

imparter1600

communicator1852

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxviii. 239 Communicants of speciall infused grace.

1811 Times 1 Nov. 2/3 The title which such articles have to belief depends entirely upon the character of the communicant.

1881 Daily Tel. 21 June 6/8 Investigations undertaken by the Russian police at the suggestion of an anonymous communicant.

1924 Michigan Law Rev. 22 441 It was just stated in effect that if the communicant has the same or a similar concern in his communication as the person or persons he addresses, he will be protected.

1947 Jrnl. Palaeontol. 21 397/2 The Committee will endeavor to..discuss with communicants the most convenient form in which their contributions may be published.

2007 Washington Times (Nexis) 18 Dec. a13 A subsequent order..compelled the NSA to obtain a FISA warrant whenever a communication targeted for interception transited the United States—even if the communicants were both al Qaeda and both outside the United States.

b. A means by which communication (of information, etc.) is effected; (in later use esp.) a substance used for communication.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > [noun] > one who or that which communicates

communicator1550

correspondent1639

communicant1847

intercommunicator1855

languager1918

contact man1926

1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxix. 100 The voice was the only communicant, and the ear the only recipient, of all those ideas and feelings which productive minds in the community found themselves impelled to pour out.

1971 Nature 23 July 261/1 Sexual recognition and attraction in many insects have been shown to involve chemical communicants called pheromones.

1977 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 196 408 No convincing morphological evidence has been obtained to include them [sc. glial processes] as a synaptic communicant.

1993 D. Quiatt & V. Reynolds Primate Behaviour v. 128 She notes improvements in analysis..which enable researchers to isolate and identify suspected chemical communicants.

4. A person who communicates or communes with another person or thing. rare.

ΚΠ

1862 Continental Monthly Sept. 345/1 He had become an habitual reader of the inner life, and almost beyond question a communicant with influences which some hold to be impossible and others unlawful.

1974 Yale Law Jrnl. 84 155 A communicant with nature, Douglas records his sensation of squalor upon reaching Chicago.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	communicant
释义	communicantadj.n. Brit. /kəˈmjuːnᵻk(ə)nt/, U.S. /kəˈmjunək(ə)nt/ Forms: late Middle English comunycant, late Middle English comunicante, 1500s–1600s communicante, 1500s– communicant; Scottish pre-1700 comunicant, pre-1700 1700s– communicant. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French communiquant; Latin commūnicant-, commūnicāns, communicant-, communicans, commūnicāre. Etymology: As adjective < (i) Middle French communiquant shared (15th cent. in the passage translated in quot. a1500 at sense A. 2a; French communicant , now only in sense ‘affording communication, connected’ (1761)), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin commūnicant-, commūnicāns, present participle of commūnicāre communicate v., in post-classical Latin used as adjective in sense A. 2b (13th cent.). As noun < (iii) post-classical Latin communicant-, communicans, usually in plural, communicantes those who are in communion with the church (3rd cent.), those who join in the prayers of the people (5th cent.), those who are joined in communion (6th cent.), use as noun of classical Latin commūnicant-, commūnicāns. Compare Spanish comunicante (15th cent.), Portuguese comunicante (15th cent.), Italian comunicante (14th cent.). A. adj. †1. = communicate adj. Obsolete. rare.Perhaps a scribal error for comunicate (cf. quot. ?a1425 at communicate adj.). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > sharing > [adjective] > shared i-menec1000 meanOE ymonec1275 commonc1300 communicant?a1425 joint1424 communicate1561 shared1598 meta1631 intercommoneda1774 participate1850 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 135 (MED) Causes..complexionale & comunicante [?c1425 Paris communede; L. comunicate]..haþ þair ymakyng & beyng ymade as was said of þe eien. 2. †a. That has a part in common; participating, sharing, shared. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > [adjective] > participating joint1424 communicanta1500 comparticipant1582 participating1643 participative1705 a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) 71 Hath not the commiccion of man his comunycant beyng [Fr. son estre communiquant] with..his vndirstonding with angelys? 1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 16 To be..communicant with him in his roiall dignitie. 1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 215 And nature make communicant of Heaven. 1849 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought (ed. 2) xxxi. 136 So that the species are not mutually opposed, but overlapping—or as Leibniz would say, communicant species. 1870 F. C. Bowen Logic v. 115 Two communicant or overlapping Genera. b. Mathematics. = commensurable adj. 1. rare. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > [adjective] > describing relationships between quantities > commensurable commensurable1557 communicant1557 symmetrala1690 commensurate1690 homogeneous1695 1557 R. Record Whetstone of Witte sig. Liii^v If the remainer, and the roote in the quotiente, bee nombers communicante, diuide them so. 1965 Isis 56 334 In Campanus of Novara's 13th-century edition of Euclid's Elements, Bk. VII, Def. 8, defines ‘communicant’ numbers as follows. 3. Christian Church. That partakes of communion; that is a communicant (sense B. 1); that is in communion with the church, or with a particular church. rare before 19th cent. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [adjective] > receiving communicant1563 theophagous1880 communing1887 1563 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 90 To aduertis the peple communicant quhou thai suld behaif thame in the mein tyme. 1814 B. Kohlmeister & G. Kmoch Jrnl. Voy. from Okkak ii. 10 He had formerly been a communicant member of Okkak congregation. 1834 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) III. 9 What will become of the poor who are now communicant with the Church? 1866 Church Times 10 Feb. Forty thousand English communicant Churchmen. 1908 Times 18 June 4/5 All candidates must be communicant members of the Church of England. 1967 Musical Times 108 850/2 Applicants, who should be communicant churchmen, are invited to write to The Vicar. 2002 R. Strong Episcopalianism 19th-Cent. Scotl. i. 22 He believed the [Scottish] Episcopal Church would be strengthened by the inclusion of communicant laymen as a third chamber of the General Synod. †4. Affording communication, connecting; = communicating adj. 2. Chiefly of arteries. Cf. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > contiguous > physically communicating communicablea1398 communicant1698 communicating1738 intercommunicating1852 1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies App. to 3rd Table, sig. Kkk/1 The Communicant Branches between the Carotid and Vertebral Arteries. 1703 W. Cowper in Philos. Trans. 1702–03 (Royal Soc.) 23 1391 The Communicant branches of the Arteries. 1713 W. Cheselden Anat. Humane Body iii. x. 127 The larger Trunks are every where attended with small Glands, thro' which they run, and..send communicant Branches over them. 1778 Anat. Dialogues vi. 274 Very often there is a branch of communication between the brachial and cubital arteries. This communicant branch is sometimes very large. 1845 Brit. & Foreign Railway Rev. 17 Nov. 202 He [sc. Thomas Gray]..inculcated the best modus operandi of laying down direct trunk lines, with communicant branches. B. n. 1. Christian Church. a. A person who partakes of or receives communion on a particular occasion. Cf. communicate v. 7a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [noun] > participant sacramenter1536 communer1548 communicant1552 communionist1851 1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16280.5) Administr. Lordes Supper (Declar. on Kneeling) sig. O.i The Communicantes knelyng, should receiue the holy Communion. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 469 What the priest shall doe when there are no communicants. 1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 47 a His body is offred, and ministred to the communicants. 1698 J. Savage Hist. Poland II. ii. 41 The Communicants follow the Priest thrice about the Altar. 1735 J. Wesley Wks. I I..administered the Lord's supper to six or seven communicants. 1790 R. Robinson Hist. Baptism xvi. 99 The priests gave the communicants bread and wine. 1843 H. S. Thirlway Jrnl. 25 Dec. (1996) vi. 45 Received Sacrament[.] I never saw so many communicants at one time before. 1884 R. W. Dale Man. Congregational Princ. iii. i. 124 The sacramental act..is completed when the communicants receive both the bread and the cup. 1924 Times 10 July 10/2 A communicant ‘deprived of the cup’ through a change of discipline in Church authority is not denied of a complete reception of Christ Himself in communion. 1971 Order for Holy Communion (Alternative Services Series 3) 31 The president and the other communicants receive the holy communion. At the administration the ministers say to each communicant, [etc.]. 2001 Church Times 19 Jan. 13/5 The Queen [sc. Victoria] was probably happiest attending the kirk at Crathie, where on occasion she would slip out of her pew to join the communicants on Sacrament Sunday. b. A person who regularly or habitually takes communion, or is eligible to do so; (more generally) a member of a congregation.The sense appears to have arisen in the context of enumerating the members of a community, where it may originally have denoted simply any person of an age fit to receive communion.In certain denominations which observe close communion (see close communion n. at close adj. and adv. Compounds 3), used to denote a person who has received baptism in accordance with the tenets of the church. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinship group > family > [noun] > family or household > member of household familiara1250 domestic1539 domestical?c1550 communicant1577 hoghenhine1607 familist1631 mainpast1865 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant by type of accommodation > [noun] > inhabitant of house > household > member of familiara1250 domestic1539 domestical?c1550 communicant1577 inmate1589 hoghenhine1607 familist1631 mainpast1865 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. ii. vii. f. 82^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I In [market towns] there are..comonly three hundred or foure hundred families or mansion houses, and two thousande communicantes..[in country districts] we finde not often aboue fourtie or fiftie householdes, and two hundred communicantes. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 354 The parish of S. Giles which hath more then 1800. Householders, and aboue 4000. Communicantes. 1609 W. Symonds Virginia: Serm. 20 [They] conuert towneships, in which were a hundreth or two hundreth communicants, to a shepheard & his dog. 1633 W. Guild Hvmble Addresse 12 So manie thousandes of Communicantes..that dwell in the utmost and remotest parts. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. x. 236 There are little less than 1500 Communicants in that Parish. a1725 J. Johnson Coll. Disc., Diss., & Serm. (1728) I. i. iii. 187 I will leave it to themselves to judge, whether..they can be said to be habitual Communicants. 1761 T. Jeffreys Descr. Maritime Parts France 126/2 The town of St. Valery..and the other suburbs, contain about three thousand five hundred communicants. 1791 J. Townsend Journey Spain I. 397 This parish contains one hundred and fifty families, consisting of seven hundred communicants. 1845 G. Lewis Impressions of Amer. & Amer. Churches vi. 157 The Baptists report that they have in Alabama..11,445 communicants or members. 1853 J. B. Marsden Hist. Early Puritans (ed. 2) 105 The minister and wardens undertook to go from house to house to take the names of the communicants. 1911 Eng. Hist. Rev. 26 417 At the time of Charles the Bold there were 2,200 households. These had sunk in 1514 to 1,118 (3,600 communicants). 1919 Times 16 Sept. 6/2 Might it not be an established rule that a communicant of one Church prevented from his ordinary means of Communion by sickness or absence of ministers of his own Church, might receive the Communion from ministers of another Church? 1962 J. Nef Search for Civilization iii. 64 The number of Christian communicants in Africa represents only a small proportion of the inhabitants. 2006 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 12 May Our prayers and thanks go out, especially to the clergy, staff, and communicants of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. †2. A person who participates or shares in something. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 380 He could not abide, others to be communicants and partakers of that which hee knewe, but himselfe to haue the vnderstanding of that onely and alone, whereof others should be ignoraunt. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 184 As they communicate with vs in all qualities,..so why ought they not in any waise but be made communicantes with vs in education? 1829 E. Hicks Let. 3 Apr. (1834) 218 Sufficient to introduce him into the knowledge of his Creator, and prepare him to be a communicant with him in the realms of blessedness. 3. a. A person who or (occasionally) thing which imparts or communicates information (or, in early use, any abstract quality); an informant; the source or originator of a communication. rare before 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > [noun] > giver > one who imparts communicant1597 imparter1600 communicator1852 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxviii. 239 Communicants of speciall infused grace. 1811 Times 1 Nov. 2/3 The title which such articles have to belief depends entirely upon the character of the communicant. 1881 Daily Tel. 21 June 6/8 Investigations undertaken by the Russian police at the suggestion of an anonymous communicant. 1924 Michigan Law Rev. 22 441 It was just stated in effect that if the communicant has the same or a similar concern in his communication as the person or persons he addresses, he will be protected. 1947 Jrnl. Palaeontol. 21 397/2 The Committee will endeavor to..discuss with communicants the most convenient form in which their contributions may be published. 2007 Washington Times (Nexis) 18 Dec. a13 A subsequent order..compelled the NSA to obtain a FISA warrant whenever a communication targeted for interception transited the United States—even if the communicants were both al Qaeda and both outside the United States. b. A means by which communication (of information, etc.) is effected; (in later use esp.) a substance used for communication. ΘΚΠ society > communication > [noun] > one who or that which communicates communicator1550 correspondent1639 communicant1847 intercommunicator1855 languager1918 contact man1926 1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece IV. ii. xxix. 100 The voice was the only communicant, and the ear the only recipient, of all those ideas and feelings which productive minds in the community found themselves impelled to pour out. 1971 Nature 23 July 261/1 Sexual recognition and attraction in many insects have been shown to involve chemical communicants called pheromones. 1977 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 196 408 No convincing morphological evidence has been obtained to include them [sc. glial processes] as a synaptic communicant. 1993 D. Quiatt & V. Reynolds Primate Behaviour v. 128 She notes improvements in analysis..which enable researchers to isolate and identify suspected chemical communicants. 4. A person who communicates or communes with another person or thing. rare. ΚΠ 1862 Continental Monthly Sept. 345/1 He had become an habitual reader of the inner life, and almost beyond question a communicant with influences which some hold to be impossible and others unlawful. 1974 Yale Law Jrnl. 84 155 A communicant with nature, Douglas records his sensation of squalor upon reaching Chicago. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?a1425
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