paradise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: părʹədīs
ipa: /ˈpæ.ɹə.daɪs/
ipa: /ˈpɛɹ.ə.daɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: paradises
form: paradising
form: paradised
form: paradised
form: paradize
Etymology: From Middle English paradis, paradise, paradys, from Late Old English paradīs, borrowed from Old French paradis, from Latin paradīsus, from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah. Doublet of parvis. Displaced Old English neorxnawang.
Senses: examples: text: Man himselfe […] euen then, when hee was first paradis’d in the Garden of pleasure, yet had something to doe in it, and was not suffered to walke idlely vp & downe like a Loyterer […]
ref: 1623, Giles Fletcher, The Reward of the Faithfull, London: Benjamin Fisher, Part 2, Chapter 1, p. 141:
text: Hadst thou seene
Her, in whose breast my heart was paradis’d,
Kist, courted, and imbrac’d.
ref: 1632, Thomas Heywood, The Iron Age, London, act IV, scene 1:
text: 1652, Edward Benlowes, Theophila, or, Loves Sacrifice, London: Henry Seile and Humphrey Moseley, Canto 7, stanza 81, p. 105,
Yet dy’dst THOU not, but that (Spîrit quickned) free
THOU might’st Saints Paradised see,
Rejoyc’d Assurance give to Them rejoyc’d in THEE!
text: 1763, uncredited translator, “An Epistle of M. de Voltaire, upon his arrival at his estate near the Lake of Geneva, in March, 1755” in Francis Fawkes and William Woty (eds.), The Poetical Calendar, London: J. Coote, Volume 12, p. 48,
[…] blest thro’ every hour
With blissful change of pleasure and of power,
Couldst thou, thus paradis’d, from care remote,
Rush to the world, and fight for Peter’s boat?
text: […] A near-nude dance of dates,
Brilliant in darkness — 1617,
Then 1500, and so back, gyrates
To reach — harsh braking on the Time Machine —
To 1321, anno felice
For Dante, paradised with Beatrice.
ref: 1995, Anthony Burgess, Byrne, New York: Carroll & Graf, Part 2, p. 63:
synonyms: imparadise
glosses: To place (as) in paradise.
examples: text: […] come all the daintieſt dainties of this toungue, and doe homage to your verticall ſtarre, that hath all the ſoveraine influences of the eloquent and learned conſtellations at a becke, and paradiſeth the earth with the ambroſiall dewes of his incomprehenſible witt!
ref: 1593, Gabriell Haruey [i.e., Gabriel Harvey], Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. […] (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London]: [s.n.], [1870], →OCLC, page 177:
text: 1613, Thomas Heywood, “Epithalamion” in A Marriage Triumphe Solemnized in an Epithalamium, London: Edward Marchant,
She enters with a sweet commanding grace,
Her very presence paradic’d the place:
text: 1828, Ann Willson, letter to her brother, in Familiar Letters of Ann Willson, Philadelphia: Wm. D. Parrish & Co., 1850, pp. 84-85,
Then let us individually aim at paradising the world, and these efforts, though feeble, would doubtless be blessed to ourselves […]
glosses: To transform into a paradise.
examples: 1606, John Marston, Parasitaster, or The Fawn, London: W. Cotton, Act IV,#*: O we had first some long fortunate greate Politicians that were so sottishlie paradized as to thinke when popular hate seconded Princes displeasure to them, any vnmerited violence could seeme to the world iniustice,
synonyms: entrance
bewitch
glosses: To affect or exalt with visions of happiness.