Dictionary entry

Commerce (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Beware you commerce not with bankrupts.

B. Jonson.

2. To hold intercourse; to commune. Milton.

Commercing with himself.

Tennyson.

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

Prof. Wilson.