Definition of Communalize

1. Verb. Make something the property of the commune or community.

Exact synonyms: Communalise
Generic synonyms: Share
Derivative terms: Communal, Communal

Definition of Communalize

1. Verb. (transitive) To take property into communal ownership ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Communalize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Communalize

commoved
commoves
commoving
comms
communal
communal understanding
communal understandings
communalise
communalism
communalisms
communalist
communalistic
communalists
communalities
communality
communalize (current term)
communalized
communalizes
communalizing
communally
communard
communards
communed
communer
communers
communes
communicability
communicable
communicable disease

Literary usage of Communalize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1898)
"... there are two principal missions,—one for the Wandering and nomadic Barbarians, whom we are trying at the same time to [9] communalize ..."

2. Some Impressions of My Elders by St. John Greer Ervine (1922)
"When he tells me that the Irish peasant will resist the attempts of the Bolshevist to communalize his land, I ask him whether the Irish peasant is equally ..."

3. The Conquest of Bread by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin (1907)
"It would be necessary to communalize the railways, that the citizens might get food and work, and lastly, to prevent the waste of supplies, ..."

4. Capitalist and Laborer: An Open Letter to Professor Goldwin Smith, D. C. L by John Spargo (1907)
"... Socialism is, in its last and deepest analysis, an effort to communalize the full benefits of this communism of production. ..."

5. Year Book of the Central Conference of American Rabbis by Central Conference of American Rabbis (1920)
"In other words, we must communalize the religious school. We must provide for connection of the school with all of the other serious work of the ..."

6. How to Meet Hard Times: A Program for the Prevention and Relief of Abnormal by William Delavan Baldwin, New York (N.Y.). Mayor's Committee on Unemployment (1917)
"... the very spirit of social life which is possible only if individuals are willing to a certain extent to communalize their services and contributions. ..."

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