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Please

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Pleased; p. pr. & vb. n. Pleasing

  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.
    What next I bring shall please thee, be assured.
  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.
    To-morrow, may it please you.

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.

Please

v. i.
  1. To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions.
    What pleasing scemed, for her now pleases more.
    For we that live to please, must please to live.
  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.
    That he would please 8give me my liberty.