imparadise
English
Alternative forms
- emparadise
- emparadize, imparadice, imparadize (obsolete)
Etymology
From im- + paradise. Compare French emparadiser.
Verb
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- (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, London: John Marriott, 1633, stanza 5, p. 215,[1]
- 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, Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 505-508,[2]
- […] 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,[3]
- 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,[4]
- […] 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, The Vanity Girl, New York and London: Harper, Chapter 2, p. 97,[5]
- "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.
- 1599, John Donne, “A Valediction of my name, in the window” in Poems, London: John Marriott, 1633, stanza 5, p. 215,[1]
- (transitive, poetic) To transform into a paradise.
- 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Chapter 4,[6]
- […] 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, London: John Marriott et al., Song 30, p. 162,[7]
- 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,[8]
- 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, Cynthia’s Chauffeur, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 6, p. 125,[9]
- 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 […]
- 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Chapter 4,[6]
Synonyms
- paradise (verb)