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verb

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."

adjective

Pleased adj. Experiencing pleasure.

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Etymology of 'Pleased'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pleased" Quotes from Famous Books

... fingers print the grand creation on the canvas. The divine afflatus is in his nostrils; it is his spirit, and his picture is the reflex of his soul. But keen-eyed Science lays a shadowy hand upon the 'holy coloring,' and says: 'Truly, the harmony is beautiful; it has pleased a sympathetic instinct from the first. Yet, from the first, my laws have been upon it—inexorable laws, which answer to the mind as instinct echoes to ...

— The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... and he rode out; the old man propped up with pillows, and the child beside him. They were hand in hand as usual. The noise and motion in the streets fatigued his brain at first, but he was not surprised, or curious, or pleased, or irritated. He was asked if he remembered this, or that. 'O yes,' he said, 'quite well—why not?' Sometimes he turned his head, and looked, with earnest gaze and outstretched neck, after some stranger in the crowd, until he disappeared from sight; but, to the question why ...

— The Old Curiosity Shop • Charles Dickens

... in two of the acknowledged masterpieces of the Danish stage, Svend Dyring's House (1837) and King Rene's Daughter (1845). The genius of Hertz was diametrically opposed to that of Ibsen; in all Europe there were not two authors less alike. Hertz would have pleased Kenelm Digby, and if that romantic being had read Danish, the poet of chivalry must have had a niche in The Broad Stone of Honour. Hertz's style is delicate to the verge of sweetness; his choice of words is fantastically exquisite, yet so apposite as to give an impression of the inevitable. ...

— Henrik Ibsen • Edmund Gosse

... The report pleased Millborne; it was highly creditable, and far better than he had hoped. He was curious to get a view of the two women who led ...

— Life's Little Ironies - A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters • Thomas Hardy

... parting words to Michael that morning. 'No one, not even her father, must coerce her. All these years you have been like a son to me, Mike; and if my child could bring herself to love you as you deserve to be loved, no one would be better pleased than I ...

— Lover or Friend • Rosa Nouchette Carey

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