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Please Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Please?
[adv] used in polite request; "please pay attention"
[v] give pleasure to; be pleasing to [v] be the will of or have the will (to); "he could do many things if he pleased" Synonyms | Synonyms for Please: delight Related Terms | Find terms related to Please: amuse | be good enough | cater to | cheer | choose | choose rather | coddle | content | cosset | delectate | delight | desire | divert | do | elect | entertain | favor | give pleasure | give way to | gladden | go over big | gratify | happify | have a bias | have preference | have rather | have the goodness | hit the spot | honor before | humor | I beg you | if you please | indulge | interest | lean towards | like | like better | make a hit | mollycoddle | oblige | opt | overjoy | pamper | pleasure | pray | pray do | prefer | prefer to | prithee | rather | regale | rejoice | satisfy | see fit | set before | spoil | suit | think best | think fit | think proper | tickle | titillate | want | will | will you | wish | yield to See Also | care | enchant | endear | enrapture | enthral | enthrall | gratify | like | ravish | satisfy | transport | wish Please In Webster's Dictionary \Please\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pleased}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Pleasing}.] [OE. plesen, OF. plaisir, fr. L. placere, akin
to placare to reconcile. Cf. {Complacent}, {Placable},
{Placid}, {Plea}, {Plead}, {Pleasure}.]
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.
\Please\, v. i. 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. |
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