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communicable
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communicable as in:  a communicable disease

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    Simpson's on a field trip in Borneo for the summer, and because there's a question of communicable disease with this lizard, she asked our lab to take a look at it.  (source)
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    Being unpopular was a communicable disease.  (source)
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    When an epidemic of mumps broke out in the school, Katie went into action against communicable diseases.  (source)
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    But good can be as communicable as evil, and that is where kindness and compassion come into play.  (source)
    communicable = contagious
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    A blessing beyond appreciation would be conferred upon mankind, if the tainted, in whose weakness or wickedness these virulent disorders are bred, could be instantly seized and placed in close confinement (not to say summarily smothered) before the poison is communicable.  (source)
    communicable = contagious and spread
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    "Rarely do chronic conditions such as obesity," the CDC scientists observed, "spread with the speed and dispersion characteristic of a communicable disease epidemic."  (source)
    communicable = contagious
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    So long as they subscribed to it completely, their happiness was his preoccupation, but at the first flicker of doubt as to its all-inclusiveness he evaporated before their eyes, leaving little communicable memory of what he had said or done.†  (source)
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    Whereas the truths of science are communicable, being demonstrable hypotheses rationally founded on observable facts, ritual, mythology, and metaphysics are but guides to the brink of a transcendent illumination, the final step to which must be taken by each in his own silent experience.†  (source)
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    Once established before the grate, and consoling himself for the inadequacy of the dinner by the perfection of his cigar, Mr. Jackson became portentous and communicable.†  (source)
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    So I went on for some days cutting and hewing timber, and also studs and rafters, all with my narrow axe, not having many communicable or scholar-like thoughts, singing to myself,— Men say they know many things; But lo!†  (source)
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    With a favor to ask we review our list of friends, do justice to their more amiable qualities, forgive their little offenses, and concerning each in turn, try to arrive at the conclusion that he will be eager to oblige us, our own eagerness to be obliged being as communicable as other warmth.†  (source)
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    FINDINGS: No histologic or immunologic evidence for any communicable disease in man in this Basiliscus amoratus sample.  (source)
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    He reached across her-noticing that she nearly lost her balance trying to lean back, as if he had a communicable disease-and pushed the red Emergency button.  (source)
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    You take the trouble to construct a civilization … to … to build a society, based on the principles of … of principle …. you endeavor to make communicable sense out of natural order, morality out of the unnatural disorder of man's mind …. you make government and art, and …  (source)
    communicable = in a manner that can be communicated and passed down
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    But I swear to you that I had a perfectly communicable little vision of truth (lamb-chop division) this afternoon the very instant that child told me her boy friends' names were Bobby and Dorothy.  (source)
    communicable = expressible
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    None of the English people knew of this, nor did the chauffeur; it was a racial secret communicable more by blood than speech.  (source)
    communicable = communicated or spread
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He had really seen no communicable ground for suspecting any ususual feeling between Stephen and Maggie; his own reason told him so, and he wanted to go home at once that he might reflect coolly on these false images, till he had convinced himself of their nullity.  (source)
communicable = capable of being communicated
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