imparadise

American  

[im-par-uh-dahys] / ɪmˈpær əˌdaɪs /

verb (used with object)

imparadised, imparadising

1. to enrapture.

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imparadise British  

/ ɪmˈpærədaɪs /

verb

1. to make blissfully happy; enrapture

2. to make into or like paradise

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Etymology

Origin of imparadise

First recorded in 1585–95; im- ¹ + paradise

Example Sentences

For she, that can my heart imparadise, Holds in her fairest hand what dearest is; My Fortune's wheel 's the circle of her eyes, Whose rolling grace deign once a turn of bliss.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

For she that can my heart imparadise, Holds in her fairest hand what dearest is.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote

There is a land, || of every land the pride, Beloved of heaven || o'er all the world beside; Where brighter suns || dispense serener light, And milder moons || imparadise the night.

From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Sanders, Charles W.

Mr. Judd was a good scholar, and the word is legitimately compounded, like ensphere and imparadise; but he did not invent it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various

For she, that can my heart imparadise, Holds in her fairest hand what dearest is.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert