Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
paradisiac .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Paradisiacal.
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- adjective
paradisiacal
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Examples
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They veered off from the paradisial planet they saw, and warned off the other ships.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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They veered off from the paradisial planet they saw, and warned off the other ships.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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They veered off from the paradisial planet they saw, and warned off the other ships.
The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000
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They veered off from the paradisial planet they saw, and warned off the other ships.
Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages Diane Duane with Peter Morwood 2000
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They veered off from the paradisial planet they saw, and warned off the other ships.
The Romulan Way Diane Duane 2000
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Indeed, there was always something more than human in her loveliness, though, to be frank, it savored less of chilling paradisial perfection than of a vision of some great-eyed queen of faery, such as those whose feet glide unwetted over our fen-waters when they roam o 'nights in search of unwary travellers.
The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918
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He halves nothing whatever with our more earnest-minded juniors who -- perennially discovering that all religions thus far put to the test of nominal practice have, whatever their paradisial _entrée_, resulted in a deplorable earthly hash -- perennially run yelping into the shrill agnosticism which believes only that one's neighbors should not be permitted to believe in anything.
The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884
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Nor was the presence and appearance of Mistress Croale an insignificant element in the paradisial character of the place.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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Did one want to live out his days in sweet content, amid fancied picturings of paradisial beauty, I know of no place better suited to the taste than this residence.
Mountain Scenery. The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina. Henry E. Colton 1859
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Entranced in the enrapturing sensations which the vision of loveliness inspires, one seems to have left the several things of this lower earth to dwell with celestial purity, the paradisial loveliness of supernal creations; and, for a time, to lose a thought of aught but the scene around us.
Mountain Scenery. The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina. Henry E. Colton 1859
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