Chaucer.
What next I bring shall please thee, be assured.
Milton.
2. To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire;
to will.
Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he.
Ps. cxxxv. 6.
A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same
things in common speech.
J. Edwards.
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.
To-morrow, may it please you.
Shak.
To be pleased in or 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.
Please (?), v. i. 1. To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable
emotions.
What pleasing scemed, for her now pleases more.
Milton.
For we that live to please, must please to live.
Johnson.
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.
Milton.
That he would please 8give me my liberty.
Swift.
Pleased (?), a. Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly (#), adv. --
Pleas"ed*ness, n.
Please"man (?), n. An officious person who courts favor servilely; a
pickthank. [Obs.] Shak.
Pleas"er (?), n. One who pleases or gratifies.
Pleas"ing, a. Giving pleasure or satisfaction; causing agreeable
emotion; agreeable; delightful; as, a pleasing prospect; pleasing
manners. "Pleasing harmony." Shak. "Pleasing features." Macaulay. --
Pleas"ing*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ing*ness, n.
Syn. -- Gratifying; delightful; agreeable. See Pleasant.
Pleas"ing, n. An object of pleasure. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Pleas"ur*a*ble (?), a. Capable of affording pleasure or satisfaction;
gratifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry.
Planting of orchards is very . . . pleasurable.
Bacon.
O, sir, you are very pleasurable.
B. Jonson.
-- Pleas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pleas"ur*a*bly, adv.
Pleas"ure (?), n. [F. plaisir, originally an infinitive. See Please.]
1. The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations
or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the
expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful, or
satisfying; -- opposed to pain, sorrow, etc.
At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Ps. xvi. 11.
2. Amusement; sport; diversion; self- indulgence; frivolous or
dissipating enjoyment; hence, sensual gratification; -- opposed to
labor, service, duty, self-denial, etc. "Not sunk in carnal pleasure."
Milton.
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man.
Prov. xxi. 17.
Lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.