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Please

Please (please)
v. t.(?)
Please
[imp. *** p. p. Pleased] p. pr. *** vb. n. Pleasing.] [OE. plesen, OF. plaisir, fr. L. placere, akin to placare to reconcile. Cf. Complacent, Placable
  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.

Please

Please (please)
v. i.(?)
Please
  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.













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