imparadise

• emparadise
• emparadize, imparadice, imparadize (obsolete)

From im- +‎ paradise. Compare French emparadiser.

imparadise (third-person singular simple present imparadises, present participle imparadising, simple past and past participle imparadised)

1. (transitive, poetic) To place in paradise; to put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy.
   • 1599, John Donne, “A Valediction of my name, in the window” in Poems, London: John Marriott, 1633, stanza 5, p. 215,

     Then, as all my soules bee,

     Emparadis’d in you, (in whom alone

     I understand, and grow and see,)

     The rafters of my body, bone

     Being still with you, the Muscle, Sinew, and Veine,

     Which tile this house, will come againe.

   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 4, lines 505-508,

     […] thus these two

     Imparadis’t in one anothers arms

     The happier Eden, shall enjoy thir fill

     Of bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust,

   • 1795, Samuel Jackson Pratt, Gleanings through Wales, Holland and Westphalia, London: T.N. Longman and L.B. Seeley, Volume 1, Letter 4, p. 27,

     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,

     […] 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.

   • 1920, Compton Mackenzie, The Vanity Girl, New York and London: Harper, Chapter 2, p. 97,

     "You’ll have to excuse the general untidiness," she warned him.

     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.

2. (transitive, poetic) To transform into a paradise.
   • 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Chapter 4,

     […] the narrownesse of the coach made them ioine from the foote to the shoulders very close together; the truer touch wherof though it were barred by their enuious apparell, yet as a perfect Magnes, though put in an iuorie boxe, will thorow the boxe send forth his imbraced vertue to a beloued needle; so this imparadised neighbourhood made Zelmanes soule cleaue vnto her, both thorow the iuory case of her body, and the apparell which did ouer-clowd it.

   • 1622, Michael Drayton, The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion, London: John Marriott et al., Song 30, p. 162,

     O my bright louely Brooke, whose name doth beare the sound

     Of Gods first Garden-plot, th’imparadized ground,

     Wherein he placed Man, from whence by sinne he fell.

   • 1809, James Montgomery, “The West Indies” Part 3 in Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, London: R. Bowyer, p. 21,

     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;

   • 1910, Louis Tracy, Cynthia’s Chauffeur, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 6, p. 125,

     She would yield to the spell of a night scented with the breath of summer, languorous with soft zephyrs, a night when the spirit of romance itself would emparadise the lonely waste […]

• paradise (verb)