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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Commerce \Com*merce"\ (? or ?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Commerced};
p. pr. & vb. n. {Commercing}.] [Cf. F. commercer, fr. LL.
commerciare.]
1. To carry on trade; to traffic. [Obs.]
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Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. --B. Jonson.
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2. To hold intercourse; to commune. --Milton.
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Commercing with himself. --Tennyson.
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Musicians . . . taught the people in angelic
harmonies to commerce with heaven. --Prof.
Wilson.
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