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pleased |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pleased \Pleased\, a. Experiencing pleasure. -- {Pleas"ed*ly}, adv -- {Pleas"ed*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: pleased adj 1: experiencing or manifesting pleasure [ant: {displeased}] 2: feeling pleasurable satisfaction over something by which you measures your self-worth; "proud of their child" [syn: {proud of(p)}] 3: experiencing pleasure or joy; "happy you are here"; "pleased with the good news" [syn: {happy}]
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