v. trans. [f. COMMUNAL + -IZE.] To render (land, etc.) communal; to make (anything) the property of a commune or local community.
1883. St. James’s Gaz., 1 Dec., 3/1. Giving corporations the power to communalize gas and waterworks.
1883. Lavaleye, in Pall Mall G., 21 Dec., 2/1. I believe that all that is now possible is to multiply the number of small properties, ‘communalizing’ a portion of land in every parish.
Hence Communalizer, one who communalizes, or supports communalization.
1889. Pall Mall G., 14 Oct., 2/3. No candidate need apply who is not a Federalist and a Land Communaliser.
