The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation.

The abode of sanctified souls after death.

A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness.

An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc.

A churchyard or cemetery.

To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch.

Paradisiacal.

Placed in paradise; enjoying delights as of paradise.

Alt. of Paradisiacal

Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise.

Alt. of Paradisian

Paradisiacal.

Paradisiacal.

Paradisiacal.

of Parados

An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse.

of Paradox

A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.

Paradoxical.

Of the nature of a paradox.

Inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions.

Alt. of Paradoxist

One who proposes a paradox.

A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations.

The use of paradoxes.

Any species of Paradoxurus, a genus of Asiatic viverrine mammals allied to the civet, as the musang, and the luwack or palm cat (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus). See Musang.

A paradoxical statement; a paradox.

The quality or state of being paradoxical.

Alt. of Paraffine

A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus coal gas and kerosene consist largely of paraffins.