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  Please \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.
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              I pray to God that it may plesen you. --Chaucer.
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              What next I bring shall please thee, be assured.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to
        desire; to will.
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              Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he. --Ps.
                                                    cxxxv. 6.
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              A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases,
              are the same things in common speech. --J. Edwards.
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     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.
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              To-morrow, may it please you.         --Shak.
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     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.
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