v. Obs. [a. OF. complaire: see COMPLAISANT.] To be complaisant to, to gratify.
1475. Caxton, Jason, 77. He emploied himself … to complaire and plese a partye of the citezeyns. Ibid. (1480), Ovid’s Met., XI. ix. He that wolde not lose the grace ne the love of two for to complaire and plese one. Ibid. (1483), G. de la Tour, C iv.
