To be pleased inor 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
(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.

Pleasant refers rather to the state or condition; pleasing, to the act or effect. Where they are applied to the same object, pleasing is more energetic than pleasant; as, she is always pleasant and always pleasing. The distinction, however, is not radical and not rightly observed.

Pleasant
(Pleas"ant), n. A wit; a humorist; a buffoon. [Obs.]

Pleasantly
(Pleas"ant*ly), adv. In a pleasant manner.

Pleasantness
(Pleas"ant*ness), n. The state or quality of being pleasant.

Pleasantry
(Pleas"ant*ry) n.; pl. Pleasantries [F. plaisanterie. See Pleasant.] That which denotes or promotes pleasure or good humor; cheerfulness; gayety; merriment; especially, an agreeable playfulness in conversation; a jocose or humorous remark; badinage.

The grave abound in pleasantries, the dull in repartees and points of wit.
Addison.

The keen observation and ironical pleasantry of a finished man of the world.
Macaulay.

Pleasant-tongued
(Pleas"ant-tongued`) a. Of pleasing speech.

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.

I pray to God that it may plesen you.
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.

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