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paradisiacal, a.|ˌpærədɪˈsaɪəkəl, -ˈzaɪəkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1]
1. Of, pertaining or belonging to Paradise; Eden-like; like that of Paradise, supremely blest; peacefully beautiful.
1649J. Ellistone tr. Behmen's Epist. xv. §1 (1886) In His pleasant Paradisiacal Garden. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 255 It would bring back the golden age or paradisiacal state again. 1840Howitt Visits Rem. Places Ser. i. 208 Ruins of Bolton Priory..; one of the most delicious and paradisiacal scenes..the heart of England holds. 1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. II. xxvi. 540 They are at the paradisiacal age; the young Adam and Eve are strong in them.
2. Of or pertaining to the heavenly Paradise; celestial.
1660H. More Myst. Godl. i. vi. 17 Clothed with those Heavenly, Ethereal and Paradisiacal bodies which Christ will bestow upon those that belong to him. 1779J. Duché Disc. (1790) II. xvii. 357 The very moment the heaven-born spirit had escaped from its tortured body, the whole Paradisiacal world was opened upon its senses.
Hence paradiˈsiacally adv.
1881Curtiss tr. Delitzsch's Hist. Redempt. i. §4. 21 That human history began and will end paradisiacally is correlated with its sinless commencement and its sanctified ending. |