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

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imparadise imparadised

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, There brighter suns dispense serener light And milder moons imparadise the night.

From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)

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

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

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.

From The Vanity Girl by MacKenzie, Compton

I knew that I should be a child at her knees the moment I set eyes upon her again; I knew that I should be imparadised, longing after impossible goodness, filled with impossible joys.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

With spells as gossamer as those of the Monna Bice, at once she imparadised his heart.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

With never so holy a calm had she knelt in the jeweled shadows of that chancel or retired from the altar to find her pew imparadised.

From Plashers Mead A Novel by MacKenzie, Compton

For even as Beatrix Dante's wreath did bind, So, Hymnia, hast thou imparadised my mind.

From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Hewlett, Maurice Henry