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Please v. t. (past & past part. pleased; pres. part. 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." "A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same things in common speech."

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." "To-morrow, may it please you."

To be pleased in or To be pleased 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.

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."

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"Please" Quotes from Famous Books

... previous knowledge, they can often tell your past to perfection, and in many cases they predict future events—which their judgment informs them are not unlikely to occur. When ignorant, they work pretty much on the same lines as the Oracle of Delphi; they give an answer that may be taken as you please. Then, if things do not occur in the way they predicted, they simply make it an excuse for extorting more money out of their victim under the plea that he has incurred the displeasure of the spirits, and that serious evil will come upon him if he does not comply with their request. ...

— Corea or Cho-sen • A (Arnold) Henry Savage-Landor

... during our final visit to the minister. He begged me not to forget his remedies when we reached Aden: I told him that without further loss of time we would start on the morrow, Friday, after prayers, and he simply ejaculated, "It is well, if Allah please!" Scarcely had we returned home, when the clouds, which had been gathering since noon, began to discharge heavy showers, and a few loud thunder-claps to reverberate amongst the hills. We passed that evening surrounded by the Somal, who charged ...

— First footsteps in East Africa • Richard F. Burton

... not please Mr. Dallas and get turned off with only my gun and pony I should be in a pretty bad shape, but I decided to keep right on and take the chances on the savages, who would get only my hair and my gun as my ...

— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly

... of weak compliance with desire. Now that he draws so near to his deliverance, he can add but one act of service—to repent, to die smiling, and thus to build up in confidence and hope the more timorous of my surviving followers. I am not so hard a master. Try me. Accept my help. Please yourself in life as you have done hitherto; please yourself more amply, spread your elbows at the board; and when the night begins to fall and the curtains to be drawn, I tell you, for your greater comfort, that you will find it even ...

— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)

... happy-go-lucky Hicks finished Scoop's letter, and glanced about him wildly seeking a way of escape, "in one minute you will tell us all about John Thorwald, alias 'Thor,' or be tossed sky-high in a blanket by the football squad, and please believe me, you'll break ...

— T. Haviland Hicks Senior • J. Raymond Elderdice

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