Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put in paradise, or in a place of high felicity; make supremely happy. Also
emparadise .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, poetic To put in a state like
paradise ; to make supremely happy.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is not to be supposed from this apostrophe that when I fell at once to love my master's wife I saw in her more than my lamp and my saint, the gracious presence which should "imparadise," in Dante's phrase, my mind.
The Fool Errant Maurice Hewlett 1892
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Self-love, and love of others, are equally natural; and before reason is developed, and the proper spiritual life begins, sweet and beautiful childhood may bloom out and imparadise our mortal life.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various
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Here the woods, mountains, and waters of Rydal imparadise the abode of the wisest of nature's bards, with whom poetry is religion.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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"imparadise himself in form of that sweet flesh," there will be a cry in the woods that will speedily bring to her assistance Pan and all his
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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