communalize

verb4

1. •
   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
2. •
   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
3. •
   To develop into a set of community conventions.

   • The speech of insiders is hardly individualized; they are accustomed to communalized speech patterns. — 1994
4. •
   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