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The abode of sanctified souls after death. To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Luke xxiii. 43. It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise. Longfellow.

Paradisiacal.

Placed in paradise; enjoying delights as of paradise.

The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers.

Removed from paradise. [R.] Cockeram.

Same as Imparadise.

To put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy. "Imparadised in one another's arms." Milton.

To deprive of happiness like that of paradise; to render unhappy. [R.] Young.

A genus of aromatic plants. It includes species which bear cardamoms, and grains of paradise.

bsent or present; as, Milton's apostrophe to Light at the beginning of the third book of "Paradise Lost."

produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower. A flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom. Milton.

A part or subdivision of a treatise or literary work; as, the tenth book of "Paradise Lost."

A sword, so called from its glittering or flashing brightness. [Poetic] Tennyson. Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand. Milton.

A chapman; a dealer; a merchant. [Obs.] He would have sold his part of paradise For ready money, had he met a copeman. B. Jonson.

hich two members of the sentence are contrasted; an antithetical proverb. [Obs.] Italy, a paradise for horses, a hell for women, as the diverb goes. Burton.

wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke.

A dwelling place assigned to happy souls after death; the seat of future happiness; Paradise.

genus of highly ornate and brilliantly colored birds of Australia, allied to the birds of Paradise.

r darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., line 883.

lding; ductile to a fault; pliant; flexible. Since Adam, and his facile consort Eve, Lost Paradise, deceived by me. Milton. This is treating Burns like a child, a person of so facile a disposition as not to be trusted without a keeper on the king's highway. Prof. Wilson.