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Definition of Paradisiacal

1. Adjective. Relating to or befitting Paradise. "Paradisiacal innocence"

Definition of Paradisiacal

1. Adjective. Of or resembling paradise. ¹

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Definition of Paradisiacal

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Paradisiacal

Literary usage of Paradisiacal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Useful Life: A Crown to the Simple Life by Emanuel Swedenborg, John Bigelow (1905)
"paradisiacal DELIGHTS HEAVENLY joy and eternal happiness thence derived do not consist in external paradisiacal delights, unless they are also attended with ..."

2. An apology for the Bible, in a series of letters addressed to T. Paine by Richard Watson (1808)
"Is it a story, that our first parents fell from a paradisiacal state-^-that this earth was destroyed by a deluge—that Noah and his family were preserved in ..."

3. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"56 ff. respecting the prophetic and paradisiacal vision of Abraham may afford us further information upon the points under discussion: this information is, ..."

4. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel (1874)
"—ammer; -jeit, /. fig happy time. , adj. paradisiacal, paradisial. , (to.) un to parade. 1, I. adj. paradoxical; II. s. ф-сп, (io.)n. pi. (sing. ..."

5. The Theological Review: A Quarterly Journal of Religious Thought and Life by Charles Beard (1870)
"Sometimes, again, he was considered a great prophet, the instructor of the peoples ; or the true Adam, re-appearing to bring back the paradisiacal state. ..."

6. Man's Age in the World According to Holy Scripture and Science by An Essex rector (1865)
"THE paradisiacal STATE. IT is strange in these days of thought and reflection, with so many sources of knowledge laid open, that the first chapter of ..."

7. Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English by John Walker (1823)
"the garden of Eden; a place of felicity [received opinion paradisiacal, par-a-de-si'a-kal. a. suiting paradise, making; paradise Paradox, par'ra-doks. i. a ..."

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