Imparadise

verb

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To place in paradise; to put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy. poetic, transitive

    "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."

  2. 2
    To transform into a paradise. poetic, transitive

    "[…] 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."

Etymology

From im- + paradise. Compare French emparadiser.

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