GRATIFY Copy link • GRATIFYTo please, gratificari (to oblige, alicui; anybody in anything, aliquid alicui; e.g., cur tibi hoc non gratificer nescio, Cic.): morem gerere alicui (to gratify his wish or humour): delectare: oblectare (to entertain, to amuse): voluptate afficere or perfundere (to affect with pleasant feelings): voluntati alicujus satisfacere or obsequi: aliquem or animum alicujus explere: optatis alicujus respondere (to gratify anybody by fulfilling his wishes). ☞ To do anything for the purpose of gratifying or to gratify anybody, is gratificari alicui aliquid; dare or tribuere alicui aliquid (☞ Herzog, Caes., B.G., 6, 1). You have gratified me very much by etc., gratissimum mihi fecisti, quod, etc. To gratify one’s self, se delectare: se oblectare: to be gratified by anything [Vid: “to derive GRATIFICATION from”]: to gratify one’s passions, cupiditates, libidinem explere; habitually, libidinibus se dare; voluptatibus servire, setradere; corporis voluptatibus (totum) se dedere: to gratify one’s appetite (habitually), ventri obedire. [Vid: To PLEASE.] To recompense; Vid: To REWARD.