Please (?), v. i. 1. To
afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions.
What pleasing scemed,
for her now
pleases more.
Milton.
For we that live to
please, must please to live.
Johnson.
2. To have pleasure; to be willing, as a
matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent.
Heavenly stranger, please to taste
These bounties.
Milton.
That he would please 8give me my liberty.
Swift.
Please (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pleased; p. pr. & vb.
n. Pleasing.]
[OE. plesen, OF. plaisir, fr. L.
placere, akin to
placare to reconcile.
Cf. Complacent, Placable, Placid,
Plea, Plead,
Pleasure.] 1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or
emotions in; to make glad; to
gratify; to content; to satisfy.
I pray to God that it may plesen you.
Chaucer. What next I bring
shall please thee, be assured.
Milton.
2. To have or take
pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will.
Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he.
Ps. cxxxv. 6.
A man doing as he
wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same
things in common speech.
J.
Edwards. 3. To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally. "It
pleased the Father that in him should
all fullness dwell." Col. i. 19.
To-morrow, may it please you.
Shak. To be pleased
in or with, to have complacency in; to take pleasure in. -- To be pleased
to do a thing, to take pleasure in doing it; to have the will to do it; to think proper to do
it. Dryden.
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