COMMERCE (2)

commerce (2). Commerce, n. trade, traffic, connexion, a game

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Com‐merce″ (? or ?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Commerced (#); p. pr. & vb. n. Commercing.] [[Cf. F. commercer, fr. LL. commerciare.]] 1. 1. To carry on trade; to traffic.
Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. B. Jonson. 2. 2. To hold intercourse; to commune. Milton.
Commercing with himself. Tennyson. Musicians . . . taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven. Prof. Wilson.