imparadise

== English == === Alternative forms === emparadise emparadize, imparadice, imparadize (obsolete) === Etymology === From im- +‎ paradise. Compare French emparadiser. === Verb === imparadise (third-person singular simple present imparadises, present participle imparadising, simple past and past participle imparadised) (transitive, poetic) To place in paradise; to put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy. 1795, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, London: T.N. Longman and L.B. Seeley, Volume 1, Letter 4, p. 27,[2] At the time I was enveloped—emparadised let me call it rather, in this blissful solitude, I felt that it was a time more detached from the dross of the world […] 1824, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Witch of Atlas” stanza 7 in Posthumous Poems, London: John and Henry L. Hunt, p. 31,[3] […] the pard unstrung His sinews at her feet, and sought to know With looks whose motions spoke without a tongue How he might be as gentle as the doe. The magic circle of her voice and eyes All savage natures did imparadise. (transitive, poetic) To transform into a paradise. 1809, James Montgomery, “The West Indies” Part 3 in Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, London: R. Bowyer, p. 21,[6] There is a land, of ev’ry land the pride, Beloved of heaven o’er all the world beside; Where brighter suns dispense serener light, And milder moons emparadise the night; ==== Synonyms ==== paradise (verb)