PLEASINGS
Noun
pleasings
plural of pleasing
Anagrams
• salpinges
Source: Wiktionary
PLEASING
Pleas"ing, a.
Definition: 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.
Syn.
– Gratifying; delightful; agreeable. See Pleasant.
Pleas"ing, n.
Definition: An object of pleasure. [Obs.] Chaucer.
PLEASE
Please, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pleased; p. pr. & vb. n. Pleasing.] Etym:
[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.
Please, v. i.
1. To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions.
What pleasing scemed, for her now pleases more. Milton.
For we that live to please, must please to live. Johnson.
2. To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure
or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent.
Heavenly stranger, please to taste These bounties. Milton.
That he would please 8give me my liberty. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition