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Entry 5 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Please

/plēz/ · IPA /pliz/
01 v. t. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy.
imp. & p. p. Pleased; p. pr. & vb. n. Pleasing
  1. 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. 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. 3.
    To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; -- used impersonally.
    “To-morrow, may it please you.” — Shak.
Phrases & compounds
To be pleased in — 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.
02 v. i. To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions.
  1. 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. 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.