Commerce

Commerce (commerce)
n.	(?)
Com"merce
(Formerly accented on the second syllable.) [F. commerce, L. commercium; com- + merx, mercis, merchandise. See Merchant.]

The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.

The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men.
Hume.

Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.

Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.
Macaulay.

Sexual intercourse.

W. Montagu.

A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

Hoyle.

Chamber of commerce. See Chamber.

Syn. -- Trade; traffic; dealings; intercourse; interchange; communion; communication.

Commerce

Commerce (commerce)
v. i.	(? or ?)
Com*merce"
[imp. ** p. p.* Commerced (#)] p>. pr. ** vb. n.* Commercing.] [Cf. F. commercer, fr. LL. commerciare.]

To carry on trade] to traffic.

[Obs.]

Beware you commerce not with bankrupts.
B. Jonson.

To hold intercourse; to commune.

Milton.

Commercing with himself.
Tennyson.

Musicians . . . taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven.
Prof. Wilson.

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