pleaseth

«pleaseth» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: pleases — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

pleases

part of speech

verb, old form of «pleases» (he, she, it)

meaning for a pupil

«pleaseth» means «pleases», a form of «please»: Please is the polite word you add when you ask for something: Can I have some water, please? tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -eth was the ending for he, she and it, where today we say -s: «he pleaseth» = «he pleases».

examples

• And Abimelech said: 'Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.' (Torah GEN.20.15, JPS 1917) tree →

tests

ending -eth (stem «please», a verb of EWT); corpora 1 (Torah 1, tales 0, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.1 (Torah alone 2.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• And Abimelech said: 'Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.'
• Be not hasty to go out of his presence; stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pleaseth» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.