Dictionary entry

Communicable

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Com‐mu″ni‐ca‐ble (?), a. [Cf. F. communicable, LL. communicabilis.] 1. Capable of being communicated, or imparted; as, a communicable disease; communicable knowledge.

2. Communicative; free-speaking. B. Jonson.

— Com‐mu″ni‐ca‐ble‐ness, n. — Com‐mu″ni‐ca″bly, adv.