pleace

== English == === Etymology 1 === ==== Verb ==== pleace (in use generally from the Middle English period to the fifteenth century and persisting in Scots until the seventeenth century) Obsolete spelling of please. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== pleace (in use in Scots until the seventeenth century and in some English dialects in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) Obsolete spelling of place. I’m not to leave this pleace. — Oliver Goldsmith