communizev.
/ˈkɒmjᵿnʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈkɑmjəˌnaɪz/ 1. transitive. To make common; to make (land, capital, etc.) the property of the community; to nationalize.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > socialism > establish on socialist principles [verb (transitive)] > on principles of specific type of socialism
Owenize1831
communize1842
agrarianize1883
communalize1883
collectivize1893
1842 G. Barmby in Promethean Jan. 4/2 The future industrial organization of society must altogether communize..the interests of mankind.
1852 R. S. Bayley Lect. on Inspiration of Script. 31 The works of men have a fixed and a limited sense, and decay when the age has communized their ideas.
1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 Sept. 3/2 It is from the true Socialist point of view every bit as important to communize parks and pictures as railways and ploughs.
1939 J. Wallace Fund. Christian Statesmanship ix. 250 The apostles, Peter and John, and the converts decided to communize their property.
2006 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 100 777 The Soviet Union..denied that it owed anything to foreign investors whose property had been communized.
2. transitive. To organize according to communist principles; to bring under communist control or rule.
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > political philosophy > communism > make communistic [verb (transitive)]
communize1893
1893 G. B. Shaw Imposs. Anarchism 16 The difficulty of communizing any branch of distribution without first collectivizing it.
1921 Public Opinion 26 Aug. 202/2 To communise the teaching profession the Soviet Government resorted to abolition of all standards of education for teachers.
1935 Jrnl. Philos. 32 240 Communism..has not communized the souls of Russia.
1966 B. S. Morris Internat. Communism & Amer. Policy v. 104 This has already led the Chinese to experiment with new institutions, such as the ill-starred communes, as a means of..communizing society.
2003 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 1 May 13/1 Missionary zeal to Americanize the world, as previous empires had once hoped with no less zeal to..communize it.
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ˈcommunizing n.
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1849 Blackwood's Mag. June 714/1 And this lowering of the tone of nobility, this communising of what ought ever to be held up as a thing apart..has done no good to society.
1875 Temple Bar June 168 The Papalization of Italy, the Communizing of Spain.
1915 E. P. Cubberley & E. C. Elliott State & County School Admin. II. xv. 386 Public education might properly comprehend any socially organized project which had for its justification the communizing of intelligence.
2007 S. Weintraub 15 Stars xv. 414 Bevin, for Britain, agreed that the abandonment of Berlin could lead to the communizing of Western Europe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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