to be pleased to do a thing
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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. [1913 Webster]
I pray to God that it may plesen you.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]
What next I bring shall please thee, be assured.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
2.To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will. [1913 Webster]
Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he.— Ps. cxxxv. 6.[1913 Webster]
A man doing as he wills, and doing as he pleases, are the same things in common speech.— J. Edwards.[1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
To-morrow, may it please you.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]