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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. [1913 Webster]

The public becomes powerful in proportion to the opulence and extensive commerce of private men. --Hume. [1913 Webster]

2. Social intercourse; the dealings of one person or class in society with another; familiarity. [1913 Webster]

Fifteen years of thought, observation, and commerce with the world had made him [Bunyan] wiser. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

3. Sexual intercourse. --W. Montagu. [1913 Webster]

4. A round game at cards, in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade. --Hoyle. [1913 Webster]

{Chamber of commerce}. See Chamber.

Syn: Trade; traffic; dealings; intercourse; interchange; communion; communication. [1913 Webster]

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.] [1913 Webster]

Beware you commerce not with bankrupts. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]

2. To hold intercourse; to commune. --Milton. [1913 Webster]

Commercing with himself. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]

Musicians . . . taught the people in angelic harmonies to commerce with heaven. --Prof. Wilson. [1913 Webster]

Commerce destroyer Com"merce de*stroy"er (Nav.) A very fast, unarmored, lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy. Not being intended to fight, they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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Bible Dictionary

Commerce
From the time that men began to live in cities, trade, in someshape, must have been carried on to supply the town-dwellerswith necessaries from foreign as well as native sources, for wefind that Abraham was rich, not only in cattle, but in silver,gold and gold and silver plate and ornaments. (genesis 13:2;24:22,53) Among trading nations mentioned in Scripture, Egyptholds in very early times a prominent position. The internaltrade of the Jews, as well as the external, was much promotedby the festivals, which brought large numbers of persons toJerusalem. (1 kings 8:63) The places of public market werechiefly the open spaces near the gates, to which goods werebrought for sale by those who came from the outside. (nehemiah13:15,16; zephaniah 1:10) The traders in later times wereallowed to intrude into the temple, in the outer courts ofwhich victims were publicly sold for the sacrifice. (zechariah14:21; matthew 21:12; john 2:14)