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Commerce (? 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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