Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Gratify

Gratify , transitive verb

[French gratifier, Latin gratificari; gratus pleasing + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See -fy.]

1.
To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.
For who would die to gratify a foe? — Dryden
2.
To requite; to recompense. [Obsolete]
It remains... To gratify his noble service. — Shakespeare