a. [f. COMMERCE sb. + -LESS.] Devoid of commerce or trade.
1768. Sterne, Sent. Journ. (1782), I. 135. In some dark and dismal room behind [the shop] he sits commerceless in his thrum night-cap.
a. 1799. in Tytler, Mem. Ld. Kames, II. 11 (L.). The savage commerceless nations of America.
