From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
please
adv 1: used in polite request; "please pay attention"
v 1: give pleasure to or be pleasing to; "These colors please
the senses"; "a pleasing sensation" [syn: please,
delight] [ant: displease]
2: be the will of or have the will (to); "he could do many
things if he pleased"
3: give satisfaction; "The waiters around her aim to please"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Please \Please\, v. i.
1. To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable
emotions.
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What pleasing scemed, for her now pleases more.
--Milton.
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For we that live to please, must please to live.
--Johnson.
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2. To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording
pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent.
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Heavenly stranger, please to taste
These bounties. --Milton.
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That he would please 8give me my liberty. --Swift.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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