a. rare. [f. COMMUNITY + -IVE.] Of or belonging to a community (communistic or socialistic).
1843. Barmby, in New Age, 1 Dec., 133. The Communist, without denying it [the Communion Table] has this meaning, gives it a higher signification, by holding it as a type of that holy millennial communitive life.
1880. T. Frost, Forty Years’ Recoll., 21. The communitive life seemed to me the perfection of political, social and domestic economy.
