imparadise

Verb

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

1. (poetic, transitive) To place in paradise; to put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy.
   • 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.1599, John Donne, “A Valediction of my name, in the window”, in Poems, London: John Marriott, published 1633, stanza 5, p. 215
   • […] 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,1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
2. (poetic, transitive) To transform into a paradise.
   • […] 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...a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London...
   • 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.1622, Michael Drayton, “The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion”, in et al., London: John Marriott, Song 30, p. 162