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

---

Etymology

Origin of imparadise

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

Example Sentences

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

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

From Eidola by Manning, Frederic

For she, that can my heart imparadise, Holds in her fairest hand what dearest is.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

For she that can my heart imparadise, Holds in her fairest hand what dearest is.

From Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana by Crow, Martha Foote

Here the woods, mountains, and waters of Rydal imparadise the abode of the wisest of nature's bards, with whom poetry is religion.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 by Wilson, John