DefinitionsParadise; ParadisiacalPleasaunce/Pleasance; Terra Actualis
paradise (n.): 1. often capitalised, Paradise): the Garden of Eden; 2.(a.) in various religious
traditions, the Edenic or heavenly abode of righteous souls after death; (b.) according to some forms of Christian belief, an intermediate resting
place for righteous souls awaiting the Resurrection; 3. (a.) a place of great beauty or happiness; [e.g.]: “They saw the park as a paradise within a
noisy city”; (b.) a state of delight or happiness; [e.g.]: “The newlyweds have been in paradise for months”; (adj.): paradisal, paradisaic,
paradisaical, paradisiac, paradisiacal; (adv.): paradisally, paradisiacally, paradisaically; (word history): from an etymological perspective, at
least, paradise is located in ancient Iran—for it is there that the word paradise ultimately originates—as the old Iranian language,
Avestan, had a noun pairidaēza-, ‘a wall enclosing a garden or orchard’, which is composed of pairi-, ‘around’, and daēza
- ‘wall’; the adverb and preposition pairi is related to the equivalent Greek form peri, as in ‘perimeter’; daēza
- comes from the Indo-European root *dheigh-, ‘to mould’, ‘to form’, ‘to shape’; the Zoroastrian religion encouraged maintaining arbours,
orchards, and gardens, and even the kings of austere Sparta were edified by seeing the Great King of Persia planting and maintaining his own trees in
his own garden; a Greek mercenary soldier, Xenophon, who spent some time in the Persian army and later wrote histories, recorded the
pairidaēza-, ‘surrounding the orchard’, as paradeisos, using it not to refer to the wall itself but to the huge parks which Persian
nobles loved to build and hunt in; this Greek word was used in the Septuagint translation of Genesis to refer to the Garden of Eden, and then Latin
translations of the Bible used the Greek word in its Latinised form, paradisus; the Latin word was then borrowed into Old English and used to
designate the Garden of Eden; in Middle English, the form of the word was influenced by its Old French equivalent, paradis, and it is from such
Middle English forms as paradis that our Modern English word descends. [Middle English paradis,
from Old French, from Late Latin paradīsus, from Greek paradeisos, ‘garden’,
‘enclosed park’, ‘paradise’, from Avestan pairidaēza-, ‘enclosure’, ‘park’; from pairi
-, ‘around’ + daēza-, ‘wall’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).
Paradise/Paradisiacal: paradise (n.): 1. (often Paradise): The
Garden of Eden; 2. (a.) in various religious traditions, the Edenic or heavenly abode of righteous souls after death;
(b.) according to some forms of Christian belief, an intermediate resting place for righteous souls awaiting the
Resurrection; 3. (a.) a place of great beauty or happiness; [e.g.]: “saw the park as a paradise within a noisy
city”; (b.) a state of delight or happiness; [e.g.]: “The newlyweds have been in paradise for months”; (adj.):
paradisiacal, paradisiac, paradisaical, paradisaic, paradisal; (adv.): paradisiacally, paradisaically, paradisally. [Middle English paradis, from Old French, from Late Latin paradīsus, from Greek paradeisos,
‘garden’, ‘enclosed park’, ‘paradise’, from Avestan pairidaēza-, ‘enclosure’, ‘park’;
from pairi-, ‘around’ + daēza-, ‘wall’; (word history): from an etymological perspective at
least, paradise is located in ancient Iran—for it is there the word paradise ultimately originates; the old Iranian
language Avestan had a noun pairidaēza-, “a wall enclosing a garden or orchard”, which is composed of pairi-,
‘around’, and daēza-, ‘wall’; the adverb and preposition pairi is related to the equivalent
Greek form peri, as in ‘perimeter’; daēza- comes from the Indo-European root *dheigh-,
‘to mould’, ‘to form’, ‘to shape’; the Zoroastrian religion encouraged maintaining arbours, orchards, and
gardens, and even the kings of austere Sparta were edified by seeing the Great King of Persia planting and maintaining
his own trees in his own garden; Xenophon, a Greek mercenary soldier who spent some time in the Persian army and later
wrote histories, recorded the pairidaēza- surrounding the orchard as paradeisos, using it not to
refer to the wall itself but to the huge parks which Persian nobles loved to build and hunt in; this Greek word was used
in the Septuagint translation of Genesis to refer to the Garden of Eden, and then Latin translations of the Bible used
the Greek word in its Latinised form, paradisus; the Latin word was then borrowed into Old English and used to
designate the Garden of Eden; in Middle English, the form of the word was influenced by its Old French equivalent, paradis,
and it is from such Middle English forms as paradis that our Modern English word descends]. ~
(American Heritage Dictionary). • plesaunce†, plesance† (n.): obsolete forms of pleasaunce. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • pleasancy† (n.): pleasantness. [as pleasance; see -cy]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • pleasaunce (n.; pl. pleasaunces): 1. obsolete form of pleasance; 2. a pleasure-garden; a region of garden with the sole purpose of giving pleasure to the senses; [e.g.]: “No maid will talk | Of sitting on my tomb, until the leaves, | Grown big upon the bushes of the walk, | East of the Palace pleasaunce, make it hard | To see the minster therefrom: well-a-day! | Before the trees by autumn were well bared, I saw a damozel with gentle play | Within that very walk...”. (from ‘Sir Galahad’, by William Morris; 1858); “And he looked in the mirror, and, seeing his own face, he gave a great cry and woke, and the bright sunlight was streaming into the room, and from the trees of the garden and pleasaunce the birds were singing”. (from ‘A House of Pomegranates’, by Oscar Wilde; 1888); “King Amor planted the seed in a pleasaunce of its own. It grew into the most beautiful blue flower the world had ever known”. (from ‘The Land of the Blue Flower’, by Frances Hodgson Burnett; 1904); “It must be remembered that she was like a child, entering into possession of a pleasaunce or toy-cupboard; her arguments would not commend themselves to mature women, who have had the run of it all their lives”. (from ‘Orlando’, by Virginia Woolf; 1928). ~ (Word-Sense Online Dictionary). • pleasaunce (n.): 1. (...); 2. a garden, especially a pleasure-garden, or part of a garden attached to a mansion but secluded or screened by trees, shrubs, and close hedges; [e.g.]: “The window, however, was pleasant, though narrow, and commanded a delightful view of what was called the Pleasance—a space of ground enclosed and decorated with arches, trophies, statues, fountains, and other architectural monuments, which formed one access from the castle itself into the garden”. (Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832, “Kenilworth”, xxvi); “Meanwhile the party had broken up, and wandered away by twos and threes, among trim gardens, and pleasaunces, and clipped yew-walks”. (Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875, “Westward Ho”); 3. (...); 4. pleasure, satisfaction; enjoyment; delight; [e.g.]: “He beholds in all which of him is most to his pleasaunce, and to hire anon he sends or castes a Ring fro his Finger”. (Sir John Maudeville, “Travels”, p. 39); “Of love I seek neither plesance, nor ease, | Nor great desire, nor right great affiance”. (“Political Poems, etc.”; ed. Furnivall, p 4; 2); “The nymphs | With pleasaunce laugh to see the satyrs play”. (Robert Greene, “Orlando Furioso”; 1590); “When my passion seeks | Pleasance in love-sighs”. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Lillian”); “It was a pageant befitting a young and magnificent chief, in the freshness and pleasance of his years”. (Washington Irving, “Moorish Chronicles”, p. 18); 5. (...). [early Modern English, also pleasaunce; from Middle English plesance, plesaunce, pleasaunce, from Old French plaisance, French plaisance = Provinçal plazensa = Italian piacenza, ‘pleasure’, from Late Latin placentia, ‘suavity’, ‘courteousness’, lit. ‘pleasingness’, from Latin placen(t-)s, ‘pleasing’, ‘dear’: see pleasant]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia). • pleasance (n.): 1, a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion; [e.g.]: “Although not far
from the mansion its pleasance offered secluded bowers ideal for dalliance”; (synonym): retreat (a place
of privacy; a place affording peace and quiet); 2. *a fundamental feeling hard to define but which people desire to
experience;* [e.g.]: “She was tingling from the pleasance coursing through her veins”; (synonyms):
pleasure; enjoyment (the pleasure felt when having a good time); pleasantness (the feeling caused by agreeable stimuli;
one pole of a continuum of states of feeling); comfort (a feeling of freedom from worry or disappointment); sexual
pleasure (pleasure derived from sexual activities). [emphasis added to highlight a particularly
perspicacious, yet rarely acknowledged, observation]. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0;
edited-for-enhancement version). This high-brow way of saying ‘the actual world’ was first-coined in jest (in February 2012) to illustrate a point. Viz:
The Third Alternative (Peace On Earth In This Life Time As This Flesh And Blood Body) Here is an actual freedom from the Human Condition, surpassing Spiritual Enlightenment and any other Altered State Of Consciousness, and challenging all philosophy, psychiatry, metaphysics (including quantum physics with its mystic cosmogony), anthropology, sociology ... and any religion along with its paranormal theology. Discarding all of the beliefs that have held humankind in thralldom for aeons, the way has now been discovered that cuts through the ‘Tried and True’ and enables anyone to be, for the first time, a fully free and autonomous individual living in utter peace and tranquillity, beholden to no-one.
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