to be pleased to do a thing

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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