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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Please \Please\, verb (used with an object) [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 {To be pleased 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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Please \Please\, verb (used without an object)
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) 2.0 [wn]:
please
adverb: used in polite request; "please pay attention"
verb
1: give pleasure to or be pleasing to; "These colors please the senses"; "a pleasing sensation" [syn: {delight}] [ant: {displease}]
2: be the will of or have the will (to); "he could do many things if he pleased"
3: give satisfaction; "The waiters around her aim to please"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "please": I beg you, amuse, be good enough, cater to, cheer, choose, choose rather, coddle, content, cosset, delectate, delight, desire, divert, do, elect, entertain, favor, give pleasure, give way to, gladden, go over big, gratify, happify, have a bias, have preference, have rather, have the goodness, hit the spot, honor before, humor, if you please, indulge, interest, lean towards, like, like better, make a hit, mollycoddle, oblige, opt, overjoy, pamper, pleasure, pray, pray do, prefer, prefer to, prithee, rather, regale, rejoice, satisfy, see fit, set before, spoil, suit, think best, think fit, think proper, tickle, titillate, want, will, will you, wish, yield to
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
PLEASE, v. To lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.
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