Commerce /(?)/

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.

   The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men.

2. Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity.

   Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser.

3. Sexual intercourse.
4. A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

imp. & p. p. Commerced; p. pr. & vb. n. Commercing

1. To carry on trade; to traffic. [Obs.]

   Beware you commerce not with bankrupts.

2. To hold intercourse; to commune.

   Commercing with himself.

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