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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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 WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
adverb
1: 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: {please}, {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"
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