Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to paradise, or to a place of felicity; like paradise; paradisiac.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal.
- adjective Causing happinesss.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
paradise (orheaven )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating to or befitting Paradise
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Examples
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That Christ will reign personally upon the earth, and that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisaic glory.
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2003
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That Christ will reign personally upon the earth, and that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisaic glory.
jaimewolf Diary Entry jaimewolf 2003
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Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock next had the privilege of enjoying the paradisaic sojourn at Queen's House, St. Ann's, as well as the four thousand pounds a year attached to the [71] right of occupying that princely residence.
West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
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He sought to express sincerely his deep, real sorrow, his choking homesickness for the something which childhood seems to possess and maturity to be without; to dream himself into childlike, paradisaic joys and wake himself to faith and action once again.
Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918
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Bob paused, and then said, with defiant decision, as if resolutely turning his back on that paradisaic picture: 22
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The idolatrous deviations from the paradisaic idea of sacrifice would thus appear as regrettable errors, which, however, would not be more difficult to explain than the general fall of the human race.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Christ will reign personally upon the earth, and that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisaic glory.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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The memory of that first state of Freedom and paradisaic Unconsciousness has faded away into an ideal poetic dream.
Paras. 1-19 1909
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Kant believed, like Rousseau, in an original paradisaic condition, in which man had lived as a happy, peaceful animal.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901
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It was not that paradisaic state of love and innocence, which, curiously enough, both Rousseau and the theologians seem to have imagined was the primitive state.
An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant Edward Caldwell Moore 1900
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