Found 1 hit - Term: to be pleased in, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : 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.
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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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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
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