Please

(plēz), v. t. [imp. & p. p. PLEASED; p. pr. & vb. n. PLEASING.] [O. Eng. plēsen, plēse, O. Fr. plaisir, plaisir, plasir, plesir, plaire, pleire, plere, N. Fr. plaire, Pr. plazer, Sp. placer, Pg. prazer, It. piacere, Lat. placere.]

1Sense 1. To excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to gratify; to make glad; as, to please the taste; to please the mind.

2Sense 2. To satisfy; to content.

What next I bring shall please Thy wish exactly to thy heart's desire. Milton.

To be pleased in or with, to approve; to have complacency in.—To be pleased to do a thing, to take pleasure in doing it; to have the complaisance to do it.

Many of our most skillful painters were pleased to recommend this author to me. Dryden.

To be pleased; to like; to choose; to prefer; to comply;—in entreaty or courtesy, please, and please you.

Spirits, freed from mortal laws, with ease Assume what sexes and what shapes they please. Pope.

Please you, lords, In sight of both our battles we may meet. Shak.

The first words that I learned were to express my desire that he would please to give me my liberty. Swift.