Chapter Commendation to Commission of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

3. Sexual intercourse. W. Montagu.

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

Chamber of commerce. See Chamber.

Syn. — Trade; traffic; dealings; intercourse; interchange; communion; communication.

Commerce
(Com*merce") 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.]

Beware you commerce not with bankrupts.
B. Jonson.

2. To hold intercourse; to commune. Milton.

Commercing with himself.
Tennyson.

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

Commercial
(Com*mer"cial) a. [Cf. F. commercial.] Of or pertaining to commerce; carrying on or occupied with commerce or trade; mercantile; as, commercial advantages; commercial relations. "Princely commercial houses." Macaulay.

Commercial college, a school for giving instruction in commercial knowledge and business. — Commercial law. See under Law. — Commercial note paper, a small size of writing paper, usually about 5 by 7½ or 8 inches. — Commercial paper, negotiable paper given in due course of business. It includes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank checks, etc. — Commercial traveler, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.

Syn. — See Mercantile.

Commercialism
(Com*mer"cial*ism) n. The commercial spirit or method. C. Kingsley.

Commercially
(Com*mer"cial*ly), adv. In a commercial manner.

Commigrate
(Com"mi*grate) v. i. [L. commigrare, commigratum.] To migrate together. [R.]

Commigration
(Com`mi*gra"tion) n. [L. commigratio.] Migration together. [R.] Woodward.

Commination
(Com`mi*na"tion) n. [L. comminatio, from comminari to threaten; com- + minari to threaten: cf. F. commination.]

1. A threat or threatening; a denunciation of punishment or vengeance.

With terrible comminations to all them that did resist.
Foxe.

Those thunders of commination.
I. Taylor.

2. An office in the liturgy of the Church of England, used on Ash Wednesday, containing a recital of God's anger and judgments against sinners.

Comminatory
(Com*min"a*to"ry) a. [Cf. F. comminatoire.] Threatening or denouncing punishment; as, comminatory terms. B. Jonson.