Meaning of PLEASE
| Pronunciation: | | pleez
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- [adv] used in polite request; "please pay attention"
- [v] give pleasure to; be pleasing to
- [v] be the will of or have the will (to); "he could do many things if he pleased"
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| | Synonyms: | | delight |
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| | Antonyms: | | displease | | |
| | See Also: | | care, enchant, endear, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, gratify, like, ravish, satisfy, transport, wish | |
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\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.
\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.
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