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Pleasing \Pleas"ing\, n.
An object of pleasure. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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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.
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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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Pleasing \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.
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Syn: Gratifying; delightful; agreeable. See {Pleasant}.
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