# 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)
* (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, 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], 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:[…] 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,
    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,
    […] 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, 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.
* (transitive, poetic) To transform into a paradise.
** 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:[…] 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.‎, 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,
    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, 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)