Please
Please , transitive verb
[Old English plesen, Old French plaisir, from Latin placere, akin to placare to reconcile. Compare 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.
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.
Collocations (2)
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. — Dryden
Please , intransitive verb
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.