Meaning of imparadise | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To place in paradise; to put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy.
   poetic, transitive
2. To transform into a paradise.
   poetic, transitive

Examples

“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.”

“[…] 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,”

“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.”

“"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.”

“[…] 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.”

The New Arcadia

“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;”

“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⟳ […]”

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