Noah Webster
Gratify
GRAT'IFY, verb transitive [Latin gratificor; gratus, agreeable, and facio, to make.]
1. To please; to give pleasure to; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc.
2. To delight; to please; to humor; to soothe; to satisfy; to indulge to satisfaction.
For who would die to gratify a foe?
3. To requite; to recompense.