Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GRAT'I-FY, v.t. [L. gratificor; gratus, agreeable, and facio, to make.]

1. To please; to give pleasure to; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, &c.
2. To delight; to please; to humor; to soothe; to satisfy; to indulge to satisfaction. For who would die to gratify a foe? Dryden.
3. To requite; to recompense.