单词 | paradisiacal |
释义 | paradisiacaladj. 1. Of, relating to, or resembling the Garden of Eden; supremely blessed; peaceful, beautiful, or unspoilt. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adjective] > of or relating to paradise paradisal1568 ambrosial1591 paradised1594 paradisaical1623 paradisean1647 paradisiacal1649 paradisic1723 paradisaic1754 paradisial1776 Edenic1850 the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [adjective] > of or relating to place of supreme happiness paradisal1568 paradisian1615 Hesperian1622 paradisaical1623 paradisiac1632 paradisean1647 paradisiacal1649 paradisic1723 paradisical1728 Elysian1750 paradisaic1754 paradisial1776 1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. xv. i. 130 In his pleasant Paradisiacall Garden. 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 259 The..passage of the paradisiacal rivers under-ground or under-sea, from one continent into another. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. 329 It would bring back the golden age or paradisiacal state again. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman ii. 46 Milton's pleasing picture of paradisiacal happiness. 1840 W. Howitt Visits to Remarkable Places 1st Ser. 208 Ruins of Bolton Priory..; one of the most delicious and paradisiacal scenes..the heart of England holds. 1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. xxvi. 540 They are at the paradisiacal age; the young Adam and Eve are strong in them. 1969 R. H. Bainton Erasmus of Christendom (1970) iii. 73 Mountjoy took him instead to his paradisiacal country estate at Bedwell in Hertfordshire. 1992 G. Swift Ever After xiii. 159 As I sit in these paradisiacal surroundings, it seems to me..that innocence is precisely what has been rendered unto me. 2. Of or relating to heaven; celestial. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adjective] > of a heavenly nature heavenlyOE divinec1374 celestc1420 celestinec1430 supernal1483 celestial1484 celical1521 heavenlike1542 paradisiacal1660 celic1663 celestiousa1691 celestical1695 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness i. vi. 17 Clothed with those Heavenly, Ethereal and Paradisiacal bodies which Christ will bestow upon those that belong to him. 1779 J. Duché Disc. 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. 1821 R. Southey Vision of Judgem. ii. 6 Not of the Earth that light; and these paradisiacal breathings, Not of the Earth are they! 1893 C. Rossetti New Jerusalem in Compl. Poems (1979–90) II. 282 She came from dim uttermost depths which no Angel hath known..From the frost or the fire to Paradisiacal zone. 1943 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Lucky Poet vi. 316 The Supreme is..The paradisiacal awareness In which all fullness immediate and unredeemed, Since all time, is posited timelessly. 1995 Speculum 70 336 In htis dramatic sequence the negativeness of Hell is no longer tempered by the existence of a paradisiacal counterpart. Derivatives paradiˈsiacally adv. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adverb] heavenlyOE ethereally1616 supernally1621 heavenlike1832 celestially1848 paradisiacally1881 the mind > emotion > pleasure > happiness > supreme or heavenly happiness > [adverb] paradisaically1832 beatifically1869 paradisiacally1881 paradisically1894 1881 S. I. Curtiss tr. F. J. Delitzsch Hist. Redempt. i. §4. 21 That human history began and will end paradisiacally is correlated with its sinless commencement and its sanctified ending. 1999 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. 19 Mar. 25/4 The angst everywhere generated by a serious look at Dante's..account of what it is to be here and now infernally, purgatorially and paradisiacally. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1649 |
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