Category:Please

Please, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pleased; p. pr. & vb. n. Pleasing.] Etym: [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.

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.