v. [UN-2 5, 6 b.]
1. trans. To turn out of, expel from, Paradise. Also fig.
1592. Daniel, Compl. Rosamond, 456. Now did I finde my selfe vnparadis’d, From those pure fields.
1605. G. Ellis, Lamentation Lost Sheep, G j b. With shame-sick Adam haue I hid my head, Vnparadiz’d, from my Angell-like state.
c. 1640. Milton, Draft of P. L., Poet. Wks. (Globe), 12. Adam Unparadized.
1839. F. Barham, Adamus Exul, 47. Widowed, desolate, And quite unparadised in heart.
1846. Lockhart, in Ch. of Scot. Pulpit, II. 156. The old serpent, who deceived and unparadised our first parents.
1858. Caswall, Poems, 170. Archangels guard the gates with flaming swords,… who at an earlier day Did man unparadise.
Mod. Our ephemeral Freshman-year friendship taught me to love; after the summer I was unparadised.
2. To deprive of the character of Paradise.
1647. Fuller, Wounded Consc., 28. Thus a wounded conscience is able to unparadise Paradise it selfe.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., I. 187. That ghastly thought would drink up all your joy, And quite unparadise the realms of light.
1788. V. Knox, Winter Even., III. VII. vii. 45. This it was which unparadised an Eden.
1827. Montgomery, Pelican Isl., VI. 254. The serpent…, Whose guile unparadised the world.
1876. C. M. Davies, Unorth. Lond., 370. Were man to enter Heaven as he now is, it would be unparadised for him at once.
Hence Unparadised ppl. a.
1872. O. W. Holmes, Poet Breakf.-t., i. 24. Nature is never wholly unkind. Economical as she was in my unparadised Eden,… still the damask roses sweetened the June breezes.
