Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To put in paradise, or in a place of high felicity; make supremely happy. Also emparadise.
Etymologies
im- + paradise. Compare French emparadiser. (Wiktionary)
Examples
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It is not to be supposed from this apostrophe that when I fell at once to love my master's wife I saw in her more than my lamp and my saint, the gracious presence which should "imparadise," in Dante's phrase, my mind.
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Self-love, and love of others, are equally natural; and before reason is developed, and the proper spiritual life begins, sweet and beautiful childhood may bloom out and imparadise our mortal life.
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Here the woods, mountains, and waters of Rydal imparadise the abode of the wisest of nature's bards, with whom poetry is religion.
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"imparadise himself in form of that sweet flesh," there will be a cry in the woods that will speedily bring to her assistance Pan and all his
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