paradisial

English edit

Etymology edit

paradise +‎ -ial

Adjective edit

paradisial (comparative more paradisial, superlative most paradisial)

paradisiacal
- 1876, E.D.E.N. Southworth, The Lost Lady of Lone‎^[1]:
  The grounds around the castle, paradisial in their own natural beauty under this heavenly blue sky of June, were adorned with all that art and taste and wealth could bring to enhance their attractions in honor of the occasion.
- 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 389:
  Nor far they steppèd when on culm'inant height / where stretcht a gem-enamel'd mead they stood; / Smaragd and Ruby-strewn, so rich the sight / presumed 'twas Paradisial floor they trod.
- 1919, Aristides E. Phoutrides, Life Immovable‎^[2]:
  And there the Turk, who holds thee with dog's teeth And makes of thee a valley of sad tears, O paradisial land of old Ionia; And here, our Mother Greece, Dream-weaver of unending laurel-wreaths Beside her Cretan helmsman and her king!
- 1999 May 28, Monica Kendrick, “Magma”, in Chicago Reader‎^[3]:
  An underground legend in the States for decades, multi-instrumentalist Christian Vander's unwieldy ensemble (composed during its heyday of a rotating cast of European rock and jazz players, with Vander and his wife, Stella, the only constants) is probably best known for its early-70s cycle of mind-bogglingly overwrought concept albums, which revolved around space travel between a degenerate, miserable near-future Earth and a paradisial planet called Kobaia and the earthlings' inability to accept the Kobaians' message of peace and spiritual enlightenment.
- 2006 October 27, Philip Montoro, “Heretical Metal”, in Chicago Reader‎^[4]:
  But "Firdous e Bareen," an instrumental track, provides a clue about the flavor of mysticism in play--it shares its name with the paradisial garden reputedly maintained by Hassan ibn as-Sabbah, an 11th-century missionary of the esoteric Nizari sect of Shia Islam, for the indoctrination of his Hashshashins.