v. [f. SOCIAL a. + -IZE.]
1. trans. To render social; to make fit for living in society.
1828. [see SOCIALIZING ppl. a.].
1836. Lytton, Athens (1837), I. 382. Pisistratus refined the taste and socialized the habits of the citizens.
1846. Grote, Greece (1862), II. 566. Socialising and improving the people.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 254. He [the wrongdoer] is imperfectly socialised.
2. To render socialistic in nature; to establish or develop according to the theories or principles of socialism.
1846. Worcester, Socialize,… to regulate or conform to the principles of the Socialists.
1889. G. B. Shaw, Fabian Ess. Socialism, 50. It is the municipalities who have done most to ‘socialize’ our industrial life.
1894. Daily News, 4 June, 7/1. They would ‘socialise,’ as they term it, all the instruments of production, such as mines, factories, railways, and so forth.
Hence Socialized ppl. a.; Socializing vbl. sb.
1848. R. W. Hamilton, Sabbath, i. 11. Divine worship, among socialised men, requires social agreement, [etc.].
1887. Pall Mall Gaz., 17 Oct., 2/2. The second part … takes place several years later in a rural commune of Socialized England.
1904. Sat. Rev., 19 March, 353. The preliminary necessary to the complete socialising of the state.
