[f. COMMUNITY + -ORIUM.] The home of a (socialistic) community; a settlement on communistic principles.
1843. Barmby, in New Age, 20 May, 24. Transitionary Dietary Rules, proposed for adoption at the Communitorium, Hanwell, Middlesex. Ibid., 1 Sept., 86. The baptistery should be instituted for observance in every Communitorium and Communistery to be erected in that state of communization.
1830. T. Frost, Forty Years’ Recoll., 50. A communitorium on the basis of the ethical and economic principles promulgated by Owen.
