imparadise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imparadises
form: imparadising
form: imparadised
form: imparadised
form: emparadise
form: emparadize
form: imparadice
form: imparadize
Etymology: From im- + paradise. Compare French emparadiser.
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 1599, John Donne, “A Valediction of my name, in the window”, in Poems, London: John Marriott, published 1633, stanza 5, p. 215:
text: […] 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,
ref: 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:
text: 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 […]
ref: 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
text: 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.
text: "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.
ref: 1920, Compton Mackenzie, chapter 2, in The Vanity Girl, New York and London: Harper, page 97:
glosses: To place in paradise; to put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy.
examples: text: […] 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.
ref: 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:
english: The New Arcadia
translation: The New Arcadia
text: 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.
ref: 1622, Michael Drayton, “The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion”, in et al., London: John Marriott, Song 30, p. 162:
text: 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;
text: 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 […]
ref: 1910, Louis Tracy, chapter 6, in Cynthia’s Chauffeur, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 125:
glosses: To transform into a paradise.
Synonyms: word: paradise