please, plese

t. & i. [O. Fr. plesir, plaisir (Fr. plaire ) = to please, from Lat. placeo =to please, allied to placo = to appease; Sp. placer; Port. piazer; Ital. piacere.] A. Transitive : 1. To give or afford pleasure to; to gratify, to delight; to excite pleasant or agreeable emotions in. "Go home with it and please your wife withal." Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, iii. 2. *2. To satisfy, to content, to humor. "I will please you what you will demand." Shakesp.: Comedy of Errors, iv. 4. 3. To obtain favor in the sight of; to win approval from. ( Milton : P. L. , ix. 949.) 4. To seem good to; to be the will or pleasure of. (Used impersonally.) "To-morrow may it please you." Shakesp .: Two Gentlemen of Verona , i. 2. B. Intransitive: 1. To give or afford pleasure or gratification; to gratify. "Such writers probably make no distinction between pleas-u-ra-ble-ne , (eas as ězh), subst . Eng. pleasurable ; -ne .] The quality or state of being pleasurable; pleasantne . pleas-u-ra-blỹ (s as zh), adv . [Eng. pleasu rab( le ); -ly .] In a pleasurable manner; with pleasure or gratification; pleasantly. "Woe to those, that live securely and pleasurably in Zion." Bp . Hall : Hard Texts ; Amos vi. 1. "For pleasure in general is the consequent apprehen. sion of a suitable object, suitably applied to a rightly disposed faculty; and so must be conversant, both about the faculties of the body and the soul respectively, as being the result of the fruitions belonging to both."South: Sermons , vol. i., ser. 1. 2. Sensual or sexual gratification or enjoyment; indulgence of the appetites. 3. That which pleases or gratifies; a source of gratification; that which excites pleasant sensations or emotions. "Hope here to taste Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy." Milton : P. L., ix. 477. 4. A favor, a gratification. ( Acts xxiv. 27.) 5. That which the will dictates or prefers; will, choice, wish, desire. ( Isaiah xlvi. 10.) 6. Arbitrary will or choice; as, He can go or come Learning , ch. xi. IMG:content-1209.png:[blocks in formation] or if it please you. (2) To be pleased to do a thing : ( a ) To have or take pleasure in doing a thing. (b) To think fit, or to have the kindne or goodne to do; to condescend to do. (3) To be pleased in: To take pleasure in. (4) To be pleased with: To approve. plēaşed, pa. par.ora. [PLEASE.] plēaş-ěd-lý, adv. [Eng. pleased; -ly.] In a pleased, gratified, or satisfied manner; with pleas ure. "He remarked pleasedly on the enthusiastic temperament of the Norwegians." -London Daily Chronicle. plēaş-ed-ne , s. [Eng. pleased ; -ne .] The quality or state or being pleased; pleasure. "This preference and superior pleased ne is the ground of all it does in the case."-Edwards: Freedom of the Will, pt. ii., §6. *please-man, s. [Eng. please , and man .] One who curries favor; a pickthank; an officious person. "Some carry-tale, some pleaseman , some slight zany." Shakesp: Love's Labor's Lost , v. 2. IMG:content-1210.png:[blocks in formation] To take pleasure in : To have pleasure or enjoyment in; to approve or favor. "The Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him." Psalm cxlvii. 11.