Pār'a-di-sā'ie or Pār'a-di-sā'ie-al1, a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, paradise.
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Paradise
Pār'a-dīse2, n.
n. [Lat. paradisus, Gr. παράδεισος, from O. Per. paradēšas, Skr. paradēśa, a foreign land, the best, the most beautiful land, Heb. pardēs, Per. & Ar. firdūs, pl. farādis, a pleasure-garden; It. paradiso, Sp. & Pg. paraiso, Pr. & Fr. paradis.]
Sense 1. (Script.) The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed immediately after their creation.
Sense 2. A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight.
The earth Shall all be paradise. Milton.
Sense 3. Heaven, the blissful seat of sanctified souls after death.
To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Luke xxiii. 44.
Sense 4. (Arch.) A court in front of a church, usually surrounded with cloisters in whole or in part.
Sense 5. A church-yard or cemetery. [Written also parvis.] Oxf. Gloss.
Grains of paradise. See GRAIN.
Pär'a-dīse3, v. t.
To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch. [Rare.] Marston.