imparadise

English

Alternative forms

• emparadise
• emparadize, imparadice, imparadize (obsolete)

Etymology

From im- +‎ paradise. Compare French emparadiser.

Verb

imparadise (third-person singular simple present imparadises, present participle imparadising, simple past and past participle imparadised)

1. (transitive, poetic) To place in paradise; to put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy.
   • 1599, John Donne, “A Valediction of my name, in the window”, in Poems‎^[1], London: John Marriott, published 1633, stanza 5, p. 215:

     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.

   • 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 505-508:

     […] 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,

   • 1795, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, London: T.N. Longman and L.B. Seeley, Volume 1, Letter 4, p. 27,[2]

     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 […]

   • 1824, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Witch of Atlas” stanza 7 in Posthumous Poems, London: John and Henry L. Hunt, p. 31,^[3]

     […] 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.

   • 1920, Compton Mackenzie, chapter 2, in The Vanity Girl‎^[4], New York and London: Harper, page 97:

     "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.

2. (transitive, poetic) To transform into a paradise.
   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:

     […] 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.

   • 1622, Michael Drayton, “The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion”, in et al.‎^[5], London: John Marriott, Song 30, p. 162:

     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.

   • 1809, James Montgomery, “The West Indies” Part 3 in Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, London: R. Bowyer, p. 21,^[6]

     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;

   • 1910, Louis Tracy, chapter 6, in Cynthia’s Chauffeur‎^[7], New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 125:

     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 […]

Synonyms

• paradise (verb)