communalizes

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
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
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
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