From 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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Commerce \Com"merce\, n.
Note: (Formerly accented on the second syllable.) [F.
commerce, L. commercium; com- + merx, mercis,
merchandise. See Merchant.]
1. 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.
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The public becomes powerful in proportion to the
opulence and extensive commerce of private men.
--Hume.
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2. Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in
society with another; familiarity.
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Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce
with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.
--Macaulay.
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3. Sexual intercourse. --W. Montagu.
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4. A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to
exchange, barter, or trade. --Hoyle.
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Chamber of commerce. See Chamber.
Syn: Trade; traffic; dealings; intercourse; interchange;
communion; communication.
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