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To place in paradise; to put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: poetic, transitive
Examples
- 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.
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To transform into a paradise.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: poetic, transitive
Examples
- 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;
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From im- + paradise. Compare French emparadiser.
