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Found 5 hits - Term: please, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
please \please\, v. i.
   1. to afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable
      emotions.
      1913 webster

            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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[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      1913 webster

            i pray to god that it may plesen you. --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

            to-morrow, may it please you.         --shak.
      1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
pleased pleasing complacent placable placid plea 
plead pleasure to be pleased in to be pleased with to be pleased to do a thing 

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
please
     adv : 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: 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"
see also:
delight displease 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
67 moby thesaurus words for "please":
   i beg you, amuse, be good enough, cater to, cheer, choose,
   choose rather, coddle, content, cosset, delectate, delight, desire,
   divert, do, elect, entertain, favor, give pleasure, give way to,
   gladden, go over big, gratify, happify, have a bias,
   have preference, have rather, have the goodness, hit the spot,
   honor before, humor, if you please, indulge, interest,
   lean towards, like, like better, make a hit, mollycoddle, oblige,
   opt, overjoy, pamper, pleasure, pray, pray do, prefer, prefer to,
   prithee, rather, regale, rejoice, satisfy, see fit, set before,
   spoil, suit, think best, think fit, think proper, tickle,
   titillate, want, will, will you, wish, yield to




[5] : THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
please, v.  to lay the foundation for a superstructure of imposition.




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