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- verb Present participle of
commerce .
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Examples
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Know, O my brothers and friends and companions all, that when I left voyaging and commercing, I said in myself, “Sufficeth me that hath befallen me;” and I spent my time in solace and pleasure.
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Six days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt signed the Trading With the Enemy Act after it had been made public that U.S. companies were commercing with the declared enemy of the United States.
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/Sales price is 75 per tonne for the 1st year commercing from the end of the
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The one who conducted me remained aloof at awful distance, whilst I sat commercing with the manes of my beloved poet, or straggling about the shrubbery which hangs directly above the mouth of the grot.
Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891
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Priscilla, but she was also like Milton's pensive nun, devout and pure, only her looks were not commercing with the skies; they were generally cast down, although it is probable that they did occasionally venture to glance at the groups of merry pink-legged children romping with the waves below.
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The true man lived in the world above, "commercing with the skies"; it was but the body, soon to perish, which went its own way, and might be allowed to do so, for it could never be other than the uncongenial burthen of the real man.
Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians 1880
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On the wide ocean he is commercing with the skies, his rapt soul sitting in his eyes.
Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work Henry White Warren 1871
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Know, O my brothers and friends and companions all, that when I left voyaging and commercing, I said in myself, "Sufficeth me that hath befallen me;" and I spent my time in solace and pleasure.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Not long ago I met him on 'Change, at a business hour, when all the commercing multitudes of the city were together, and you could scarcely turn, for the people.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 Various 1840
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The looks that are given him in his original structure, are "looks commercing with the skies."
Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries 1831
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