Dictionary entry

Please (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.