communalize

Verb

communalize (third-person singular simple present communalizes, present participle communalizing, simple past and past participle communalized)

1. (transitive) To take property into communal ownership.
   • For example, in Plato's Republic, marriage was forbidden, wives were "communalized," and children were separated from their parents and considered orphans of the state.2003, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the Virtual World, page 879
   • In contrast, Fujimoto (2001b) indicated that communalizing parts designs between models and generations might not necessarily reduce development labor hours.2016, Kazuki Hamada, Shufuku Hiraoka, Management Of Innovation Strategy In Japanese Companies
2. (transitive) To transfer responsibility and power to the community level.
   • Communalizing this wealth means that the power to determine the ultimate uses and disposition of land and water rests with the appropriate territorial community.1979, John Friedmann, Clyde Weaver, Territory and Function: The Evolution of Regional Planning, page 195
   • In the mid-eighties, the Hindu Right began to communalize the issue of Muslim Personal Law and UCC in order to push its case against state 'minorityism' or 'favouring of religious minorities'.1997, Achin Vanaik, The Furies of Indian Communalism, page 229
3. (transitive) To treat as happening to or belonging to one's own group; to make (something) the subject of empathic understanding.
   • In general the world exists not only for isolated men but for the community of men; and this is due to the fact that even what is straightforwardly perceptual is communalized.1986, Steven W. Laycock, James G. Hart, Essays in Phenomenological Theology: 1866-1997, page 177
   • In this case the theme becomes: In what way I, in spite of my uniqueness and ownness, am always already “othered” and communalized, i.e., immersed in the lives of Others and incorporating the Others in mine.2009, J.G. Hart, Who One Is: Book 1: Meontology of the "I"
4. (transitive) To develop into a set of community conventions.
   • The speech of insiders is hardly individualized; they are accustomed to communalized speech patterns.1994, International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics - Volumes 23-24, page 35
   • Some communal factors, such as norms for naming and revising products and documents, a company-wide documentation archive, the Ericsson project management model, and more had been communalized into stable, communal factors over many years.2021, Nik Rushdi Hassan, Leslie P. Willcocks, Advancing Information Systems Theories: Rationale and Processes, page 420