pleasureless (eas as ezh)

[Eng. pleasure; les. Devoid of pleasure. "That pleasurele yielding to small solicitations."G. Eliot: Middle march , ch. lxxix. pleas-ur-er (sas zh), s. [Eng. pleasur (e); -er.] A pleasure seeker. "We mean the Sunday pleasurers." Dickens : Sketches by Boz; London Recreations. †pleas-ur-Ist (eas as ězh), s. [Eng. pleasur (e); ist .] A pleasure seeker. "Let intellectual contents exceed the delights wherein mere pleasurists place their paradise."-Browne: Chris . tian Morality. pleat, v. t. & 8. [PLAIT, v. & s.] *pleate, v . t. [PLETE (2), v.] To plead. "It is Christes only offyce to receyue all complayntes, and to pleate them, and to judge them."- Bale : Image, pt. i. *plěb, s . [An abbrev. of plebeian (q. v.).] One of the common people; a plebeian; one of low rank. †plebe, s . [Lat. plebs (gen it. pleb is .)] 1. The common people, the mob. "The plebe , with thirst and fury prest, Thus roaring, raving, 'gainst their chiefs contest." Sylvester: Be thulia's Rescue , iii. 391. 2. A name given to a member of the lowest cla in a college or academy; spec if. in the West Point military academy. ( Colloq .) "There was one cadet at West Point who did not thoroughly enjoy the national holiday. W. S. Valentine, a member of the third cla , ordered a fourth-cla man to go through some unusual and unnece ary performance in his tent. While the latter was in the act of obeying Tactical Officer Hollbrook came along and placed Corporal Valentine under arrest. The plebe made a complaint of hazing and a court-martial has been convened." -Chicago Inter Ocean, July 8, 1894.