please

1. v. t. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. Source: opted

2. v. t. To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will. Source: opted

3. v. t. To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally. Source: opted

4. v. i. To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions. Source: opted

5. v. i. To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent. Source: opted

6. adv. used in polite request Source: wordnet

7. v. give pleasure to or be pleasing to Source: wordnet

8. v. be the will of or have the will (to) Source: wordnet

9. v. give satisfaction Source: wordnet

10. 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. 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. Source: webster

11. r:84/v:16 v. give pleasure to or be pleasing to v. be the will of or have the will (to) v. give satisfaction r. used in polite request Source: ecdict

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