Definition of Pleaseth

1. Verb. (archaic) (third-person singular of please) ¹

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Definition of Pleaseth

1. please it [coll]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleaseth

please repeat after me
please say again
please sit down
please speak more slowly
please turn left
please turn right
pleased
pleased as Punch
pleased to meet you
pleasedly
pleasedness
pleaser
pleasers
pleases
pleasest
pleaseth (current term)
pleasing
pleasingly
pleasingness
pleasingnesses
pleasings
pleasurability
pleasurable
pleasurableness
pleasurably
pleasure-boat
pleasure-pain principle
pleasure-unpleasure principle
pleasure boat

Literary usage of Pleaseth

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Defence of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures Into by William Fulke (1843)
"It pleaseth you worse, perhaps, that less favour- the worse to be liked of them that ... I fly not therefore (as it pleaseth your wisdom to say) from that ..."

2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... succeeds another, and that so soon, that before one is ended I begin with a second; she that is last is still fairest, and she that is present pleaseth ..."

3. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... she that is last is still fairest, and she that is present pleaseth me most ; as an hydra's head my loves increase, ..."

4. A Defence of the Sincere and True Translations of the Holy Scriptures Into by William Fulke (1843)
"It pleaseth you worse, perhaps, that less favour- the worse to be liked of them that ... I fly not therefore (as it pleaseth your wisdom to say) from that ..."

5. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1862)
"... succeeds another, and that so soon, that before one is ended I begin with a second; she that is last is still fairest, and she that is present pleaseth ..."

6. The Anatomy of melancholy v. 3 by Robert Burton (1875)
"... she that is last is still fairest, and she that is present pleaseth me most ; as an hydra's head my loves increase, ..."

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