commerce

The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; especially the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or communities; extended trade or traffic.

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

[A]ll libertine diſcourſe, and familiarities vvith vvomen, […] nay even friendſhip it ſelfe […] muſt be vvatched vvith great prudence to be kept ſafe: for vvhich cauſe in ſtead of all theſe perillous commerces of our love, I vvill preferre ſo ſecure an object to it, […]

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

Sexual intercourse.

carnal commerce

An 18th-century French card game in which the cards are subject to exchange, barter, or trade.

To carry on trade; to traffic.

[A]lwaies beware you commerce not with bankrupts, […]

To hold conversation; to communicate.

No, sir, he, / Vex'd with a morbid devil in his blood / That veil'd the world with jaundice, hid his face / From all men, and commercing with himself, / He lost the sense that handles daily life— […]

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

A city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.