commerced

For such judgments are easy indeed to the very lowest understandings, and regard things that are visible to eyes that may seldom have commerced with things that are above.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

He writes, as he frankly tells us, in a spirit of reparation and gratitude, having commerced freely with devils during a long series of unholy years.

Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Arthur Edward Waite 1899

Mort Dieu! we are over-commerced as it is, -- the bow is already deserted for the ell-measure.

The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Mort Dieu! we are over-commerced as it is, -- the bow is already deserted for the ell-measure.

The Last of the Barons — Volume 11 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

After a while that upon this undertaking they made cognicence and commerced with the highlanders, inhabitants of that country, who gave them notice that there weare a nation higher who should understand them, being that they weare great travellers, that they should goe on the other side and there should find another river named Tatousac.

Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

Did not she claim a rigki to almost every port in the wsrld to which wecouJdearryou commerced and could America claim any property, other than by stipulation, to a single port in the world more than twenty leagues from ber own shore 1 Look into the de&iiiive Treaty of Peace witji Great Britain, and he ibonsht every one must grant ibis.

The Debates and proceedings in the Congress of the United States 1789

The countenance of this opinion was apparently the warrant required for the proceedings which immediately followed, and it is difficult to understand why fakirs in league with Satan -- for such we are told they were -- and possessed, no doubt, both of ordinary native and occult methods of diagnosis, could not have discovered this for themselves, more especially as the lady, who seems to have been a pythoness by profession, and commerced with a familiar spirit, had already reached the ripe age of 152 years.

Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Arthur Edward Waite 1899