Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Please"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Please \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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Please \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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

please
v 1: give pleasure to; be pleasing to [syn: {delight}] [ant: {displease}]
2: be the will of or have the will (to); "he could do many
things if he pleased"


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