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cantile; 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. --…

William returned a gracious answer, and desired the Commons to name the commissioners. Macaulay.

t could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading. Macaulay.

, treaties, leagues, etc. Blackstone. Wedlock is described as the indissoluble compact. Macaulay. The federal constitution has been styled a compact between the States by which it was ratified. Wharton.

. As sharp legal practitioners, no class of human beings can bear comparison with them. Macaulay. The miracles of our Lord and those of the Old Testament afford many interesting points of comparison. Trench.

es of another; pity; commiseration. Womanly igenuity set to work by womanly compassion. Macaulay.

's] compilations are widely distinguished from the compilations of ordinary bookmakers. Macaulay.

r books or documents. He [Goldsmith] compiled for the use of schools a History of Rome. Macaulay.

mpliances will remove dissension Swift. Ready compliance with the wishes of his people. Macaulay.

ate or confused relation of parts; entaglement; complexity. A complication of diseases. Macaulay. Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. Palfrey.

mposition of a poem or a piece of music. "The constant habit of elaborate composition." Macaulay.

ed by this conclave (Johnson's Club) on new books, were speedily known over all London. Macaulay. To be in conclave, to be engaged in a secret meeting; -- said of several, or a considerable number of, persons.

s knowledge of the Bible was such, that he might have been called a living concordance. Macaulay.

ad lain with fifty pounds weight of irons on his legs in the condemned ward of Newgate. Macaulay.

was a great and perhaps an unequaled master of the arts of selection and condensation. Macaulay.

. Their congratulations and their condolences. Steele. A special mission of condolence. Macaulay.

r toward. He was sensible how much such a union would conduce to the happiness of both. Macaulay. The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood. Shak.

f action; behavior. All these difficulties were increased by the conduct of Shrewsbury. Macaulay. What in the conduct of our life appears So well designed, so luckily begun, But when we have our wish, we wish undone Dryden.

an ally; also, an accomplice in a bad sense. He found some of his confederates in gaol. Macaulay.

onfidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God. Macaulay.