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imparadise en · VERB

Etymology

From im- + paradise. Compare French emparadiser.

Meanings

1. (poetic, transitive) To place in paradise; to put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy.
   • […] thus these two Imparadis’t in one anothers arms The happier Eden, shall enjoy thir fill Of bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust, 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 505-508:
   • Then, as all my soules bee, Emparadis’d in you, (in whom alone I understand, and grow and see,) The rafters of my body, bone Being still with you, the Muscle, Sinew, and Veine, Which tile this house, will come againe. 1599, John Donne, “A Valediction of my name, in the window”, in Poems, London: John Marriott, published 1633, stanza 5, p. 215:
   • At the time I was enveloped—emparadised let me call it rather, in this blissful solitude, I felt that it was a time more detached from the dross of the world […] 1795, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, London: T.N. Longman and L.B. Seeley, Volume 1, Letter 4, p. 27,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004853688.0001.001
   • "You’ll have to excuse the general untidiness," she warned him. The sentence was out before she had time to realize that the general untidiness included a searing vision of Lily in an arm-chair, imparadised upon the lap of the impossible Tom Hewitt. 1920, Compton Mackenzie, chapter 2, in The Vanity Girl, New York and London: Harper, page 97:
   • 1824, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Witch of Atlas” stanza 7 in Posthumous Poems, London: John and Henry L. Hunt, p. 31, […] the pard unstrung His sinews at her feet, and sought to know With looks whose motions spoke without a tongue How he might be as gentle as the doe. The magic circle of her voice and eyes All savage natures did imparadise.
2. (poetic, transitive) To transform into a paradise.
   • 1809, James Montgomery, “The West Indies” Part 3 in Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, London: R. Bowyer, p. 21, There is a land, of ev’ry land the pride, Beloved of heaven o’er all the world beside; Where brighter suns dispense serener light, And milder moons emparadise the night;
   • She would yield to the spell of a night scented with the breath of summer, languorous with soft zephyrs, a night when the spirit of romance itself would emparadise the lonely waste […] 1910, Louis Tracy, chapter 6, in Cynthia’s Chauffeur, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 125:
   • […] the narrownesse of the coach made them ioine from the foote to the shoulders very close together; the truer touch wherof though it were barred by their enuious apparell, yet as a perfect Magnes, though put in an iuorie boxe, will thorow the boxe send forth his imbraced vertue to a beloued needle; so this imparadised neighbourhood made Zelmanes soule cleaue vnto her, both thorow the iuory case of her body, and the apparell which did ouer-clowd it. a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:
   • O my bright louely Brooke, whose name doth beare the sound Of Gods first Garden-plot, th’imparadized ground, Wherein he placed Man, from whence by sinne he fell. 1622, Michael Drayton, “The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion”, in et al., London: John Marriott, Song 30, p. 162:

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