'To be pleased to do a thing' definitions:

Definition of 'To be pleased to do a thing'

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  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will. [1913 Webster]
  • Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he. --Ps. cxxxv. 6. [1913 Webster]
  • A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same things in common speech. --J. Edwards. [1913 Webster]
  • 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]