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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1533-1567
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Ples-, Pleis-, Pleasing(e, ppl. a. [ME. and e.m.E. plesing (Wyclif), -yng, pleasyng, f. Ples(e v.] That gives pleasure or satisfaction; agreeable. — 1533 Boece iii. iv. 95.
Eder … in plesing tyme of somer … delitit in na thing mare than hunting 1533 Ib. vii. viii. 237 b.
How beit this viage was litill plesing to Britons 1533 Ib. ix. x. 312.
Ane plesing kirk craftely biggit of assillare 1553–4 Knox III. 132.
[Adversity] is a medicyne and therfore … can not be pleasinge 1567 Cal. Sc. P. II. 390.
Pleising 1567 Confession of Faith in Acts III. 17/2.
Naturall man … lustis for thingis plesing and delectabill vnto the self
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