Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Please (-d, -s)
please (-d, -s), v. [ME plaise < L. placēre, to be pleasing or agreeable.] (webplay: choose, condescend, content, dull, dwell, eye, friend, gay, good, grace, heart's desire, joy, landscape, like, lords, meet, men-pleasers, please God, sailing, saying, show, sight, sounds, taste, view, worldly).
- Satisfy; content; interest; delight; make happy.
- Allow; grant; permit; make possible.
- Deign; condescend.
- Have mercy; show compassion.
- Desire; want; like; choose; prefer.
- Suit, be appropriate (for); be fitting (for).
- Excite; [fig.] ripple; agitate; disturb.
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