To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden.
To requite; to recompense. [Obs.] It remains . . . To gratify his noble service. Shak.
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