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

He saw, I suppose, for he added at once,— "Or what was the name of the Witch of Atlas,   'The magic circle of whose voice and eyes   All savage natures did imparadise?'"

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 by Various

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

God’s very grace Is perfect in thy face, Mirrored such wise That I mine own soul there imparadise.

From Eidola by Manning, Frederic

Here the woods, mountains, and waters of Rydal imparadise the abode of the wisest of nature's bards, with whom poetry is religion.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John