Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Communicate

Communicate (kom*mū"ni*kāt ) , transitive verb

[Latin communicatus, past participle of communicare to communicate, from communis common. See Commune, v. i.]

1.
To share in common; to participate in. [Obsolete]
To thousands that communicate our loss. — B. Jonson
2.
To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.
Where God is worshiped, there he communicates his blessings and holy influences. — Jer. Taylor
3.
To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.
4.
To administer the communion to. [Rare]
She [the church]... may communicate him. — Jer. Taylor
He communicated those thoughts only with the Lord Digby. — Clarendon

This verb was formerly followed by with before the person receiving, but now usually takes to after it.

Communicate , intransitive verb

1.
To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.
Ye did communicate with my affliction. — Philip. iv. 4
2.
To give alms, sympathy, or aid.
To do good and to communicate forget not. — Heb. xiii. 16
3.
To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery.
Subjects suffered to communicate and to have intercourse of traffic. — Hakluyt
The whole body is nothing but a system of such canals, which all communicate with one another. — Arbuthnot
4.
To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.
The primitive Christians communicated every day. — Jer. Taylor