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imparadise

American  
[im-par-uh-dahys] / ɪmˈpær əˌdaɪs /

verb (used with object)

imparadised, imparadising
  1. to enrapture.


imparadise British  
/ ɪmˈpærədaɪs /

verb

  1. to make blissfully happy; enrapture

  2. to make into or like paradise

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of imparadise

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


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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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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 E. C. (Ernest Clark) Hartwell

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

From Eidola by Frederic Manning

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

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 Charles W. Sanders

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

From Helen Redeemed and Other Poems by Maurice Henry Hewlett

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 Edgar Saltus

Always in their youth, when they had sat imparadised, Michael had been aware of the vulgar Haden household in the background.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

Near him were lovers who in this symphony were fast imparadised; their hands were interlaced; visibly they swayed nearer to each other on the waves of melody.

From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie

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 Compton MacKenzie

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