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unˈparadise, v.
[un-2 5, 6 b.]
1. trans. To turn out of, expel from, Paradise. Also fig.
1592Daniel Compl. Rosamond 456 Now did I finde my selfe vnparadis'd, From those pure fields. 1605G. Ellis Lamentation Lost Sheep G j b, With shame-sick Adam haue I hid my head, Vnparadiz'd, from my Angell-like state. c1640Milton Draft of P.L. Poet. Wks. (Globe) 12 Adam Unparadized. 1839F. Barham Adamus Exul 47 Widowed, desolate, And quite unparadised in heart. 1846Lockhart in Ch. of Scot. Pulpit II. 156 The old serpent, who deceived and unparadised our first parents. 1858Caswall Poems 170 Archangels guard the gates with flaming swords,..who at an earlier day Did man unparadise.
2. To deprive of the character of Paradise.
1647Fuller Wounded Consc. 28 Thus a wounded conscience is able to unparadise Paradise it selfe. 1742Young Nt. Th. i. 187 That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy, And quite unparadise the realms of light. 1788V. Knox Winter Even. III. vii. vii. 45 This it was which unparadised an Eden. 1827Montgomery Pelican Isl. vi. 254 The serpent.., Whose guile unparadised the world. 1876C. M. Davies Unorth. Lond. 370 Were man to enter Heaven as he now is, it would be unparadised for him at once.
Hence unˈparadised ppl. a.
1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. i. 24 Nature is never wholly unkind. Economical as she was in my unparadised Eden,..still the damask roses sweetened the June breezes. |