imparadise

American  

[im-par-uh-dahys] / ɪmˈpær əˌdaɪs /

verb (used with object)

imparadised, imparadising

1. to enrapture.

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imparadise British  

/ ɪmˈpærədaɪs /

verb

1. to make blissfully happy; enrapture

2. to make into or like paradise

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Etymology

Origin of imparadise

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

Example Sentences

For she, that can my heart imparadise, Holds in her fairest hand what dearest is; My Fortune's wheel 's the circle of her eyes, Whose rolling grace deign once a turn of bliss.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

There is a land of every land the pride, Beloved of Heaven o'er all the world beside, There brighter suns dispense serener light And milder moons imparadise the night.

From Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year by Hartwell, E. C. (Ernest Clark)

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

There is a land, || of every land the pride, Beloved of heaven || o'er all the world beside; Where brighter suns || dispense serener light, And milder moons || imparadise the night.

From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Sanders, Charles W.