Commercing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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