(Zool.) The name of several very beautiful birds of the genus Paradisea and allied genera, inhabiting New Guinea and the adjacent islands. The males have brilliant colors, elegant plumes, and often remarkable tail feathers. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Great emerald (Paradisea apoda) and the Lesser emerald (Paradisea minor) furnish many of the plumes used as ornaments by ladies; the Red bird of paradise is Paradisea rubra or Paradisea sanguinea; the Golden bird of paradise is Parotia aurea or Parotia sexsetacea; the King bird of paradise is Cincinnurus regius. The name is also applied to the longer-billed birds of another related group (Epimachinæ) from the same region. The Twelve-wired bird of paradise (Seleucides alba) is one of these. See Paradise bird, and Note under Apod. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Removed from paradise. [ R. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. Same as Imparadise. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Imparadised p. pr. & vb. n. Imparadising ] [ Pref. im- + paradise: cf. F. emparadiser. ] To put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy. “Imparadised in one another's arms.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ n.; pl. Paradactyla [ NL. See Para-, and Dactyl. ] (Zool.) The side of a toe or finger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. Sp. parada a halt or stopping, an assembling for exercise, a place where troops are assembled to exercise, fr. parar to stop, to prepare. See Pare, v. t. ] 1. The ground where a military display is held, or where troops are drilled. Also called parade ground. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) An assembly and orderly arrangement or display of troops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hence: Any imposing procession; the movement of any group of people marshaled in military order, especially a festive public procession, which may include a marching band, persons in varied costume, vehicles with elaborate displays, and other forms of entertainment, held in commemoration or celebration of an event or in honor of a person or persons; as, a parade of firemen; a Thanksgiving Day parade; a Memorial Day parade; a ticker-tape parade. [ PJC ]

In state returned the grand parade. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Hence: A pompous show; a formal or ostentatious display or exhibition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be rich, but of your wealth make no parade. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Posture of defense; guard. [ A Gallicism. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When they are not in parade, and upon their guard. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A public walk; a promenade. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dress parade,
Undress parade. See under Dress, and Undress. --
Parade rest, a position of rest for soldiers, in which, however, they are required to be silent and motionless. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Ostentation; display; show. -- Parade, Ostentation. Parade is a pompous exhibition of things for the purpose of display; ostentation now generally indicates a parade of virtues or other qualities for which one expects to be honored. “It was not in the mere parade of royalty that the Mexican potentates exhibited their power.” Robertson. “We are dazzled with the splendor of titles, the ostentation of learning, and the noise of victories.” Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Paraded; p. pr. & vb. n. Parading. ] [ Cf. F. parader. ] 1. To exhibit in a showy or ostentatious manner; to show off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Parading all her sensibility. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To assemble and form; to marshal; to cause to maneuver or march ceremoniously; as, to parade troops. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To make an exhibition or spectacle of one's self, as by walking in a public place. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To assemble in military order for evolutions and inspection; to form or march, as in review or in a public celebratory parade{ 3 }. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. One who walks with regular or stately step.
Syn. -- marcher. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The sound of a drum (especially a snare drum) beaten rapidly and continuously.
Syn. -- roll, drum roll. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. paradigme, L. paradigma, fr. Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to show by the side of, to set up as an example; para` beside + &unr_; to show. See Para-, and Diction. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An example; a model; a pattern. [ R. ] “The paradigms and patterns of all things.” Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Rhet.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Science) A theory providing a unifying explanation for a set of phenomena in some field, which serves to suggest methods to test the theory and develop a fuller understanding of the topic, and which is considered useful until it is be replaced by a newer theory providing more accurate explanations or explanations for a wider range of phenomena. [ PJC ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A writer of memoirs of religious persons, as examples of Christian excellence. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. paradeigmatiko`s. ] Exemplary. -- Par`a*dig*mat"ic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Paradigmatized p. pr. & vb. n. Paradigmatizing ] [ Gr. paradeigmati`zein. See Paradigm. ] To set forth as a model or example. [ Obs. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal; as, paradisaical innocence; an age of paradisaical happiness. “Paradisaical pleasures.” Gray.
Syn. -- paradisiacal, paradisiac, paradisaic, paradisal, elysian, paradisial. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Causing happinesss. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Paradisiacal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. & F. paradis, L. paradisus, fr. Gr. para`deisos park, paradise, fr. Zend pairidaēza an inclosure; pairi around (akin to Gr. peri`) + diz to throw up, pile up; cf. Skr. dih to smear, and E. dough. Cf. Parvis. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The garden of Eden, in which Adam and Eve were placed after their creation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The abode of sanctified souls after death. [ 1913 Webster ]

To-day shalt thou be with me in paradise. Luke xxiii. 43. [ 1913 Webster ]

It sounds to him like her mother's voice,
Singing in Paradise. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A place of bliss; a region of supreme felicity or delight; hence, a state of happiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The earth
Shall be all paradise. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wrapt in the very paradise of some creative vision. Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Arch.) An open space within a monastery or adjoining a church, as the space within a cloister, the open court before a basilica, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A churchyard or cemetery. [ Obs. ] Oxf. Gloss. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fool's paradise. See under Fool, and Limbo. --
Grains of paradise. (Bot.) See Melequeta pepper, under Pepper. --
Paradise bird. (Zool.) Same as Bird of paradise. Among the most beautiful species are the superb (Lophorina superba); the magnificent (Diphyllodes magnifica); and the six-shafted paradise bird (Parotia sefilata). The long-billed paradise birds (Epimachinæ) also include some highly ornamental species, as the twelve-wired paradise bird (Seleucides alba), which is black, yellow, and white, with six long breast feathers on each side, ending in long, slender filaments. See Bird of paradise in the Vocabulary. --
Paradise fish (Zool.), a beautiful fresh-water Asiatic fish (Macropodus viridiauratus) having very large fins. It is often kept alive as an ornamental fish. --
Paradise flycatcher (Zool.), any flycatcher of the genus Terpsiphone, having the middle tail feathers extremely elongated. The adult male of Terpsiphone paradisi is white, with the head glossy dark green, and crested. --
Paradise grackle (Zool.), a very beautiful bird of New Guinea, of the genus Astrapia, having dark velvety plumage with brilliant metallic tints. --
Paradise nut (Bot.), the sapucaia nut. See Sapucaia nut. [ Local, U. S. ] --
Paradise whidah bird. (Zool.) See Whidah. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To affect or exalt with visions of felicity; to entrance; to bewitch. [ R. ] Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Paradisiacal. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Placed in paradise; enjoying delights as of paradise. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. paradisiacus. ] Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise; paradisaic. C. Kingsley. T. Burnet. “A paradisiacal scene.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The valley . . . is of quite paradisiac beauty. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Paradisiacal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Paradisiacal. [ R. ] Broome. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Paradisiacal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Paradoses [ F., fr. parer to defend + dos back, L. dorsum. ] (Fort.) An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse. Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. paradoxes [ F. paradoxe, L. paradoxum, fr. Gr. para`doxon; para` beside, beyond, contrary to + dokei^n to think, suppose, imagine. See Para-, and Dogma. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gloss there is to color that paradox, and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hydrostatic paradox. See under Hydrostatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Paradoxical. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of the nature of a paradox. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inclined to paradoxes, or to tenets or notions contrary to received opinions. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Par`a*dox"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Par`a*dox"ic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Paleon.) A genus of large trilobites characteristic of the primordial formations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ paradox + -ism. ca. 1980 ] An avant-garde movement in literature, art, and philosophy, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, oxymorons, and paradoxes. Charles Le (https://web.archive.org/web/20091018202429/http://www.geocities.com/charlestle/paradoxism.html) [ PJC ]

Paradoxism originated in Romania in the 1980s as a way of protesting against a closed society and a totalitarian regime. It is based on an excessive use of antimonies, antitheses, contradictions, oxymorons, and paradoxes. It was set up and led by the writer Florentin Smarandache in the 1980's, who said: “The goal is the enlargement of the artistic sphere through non-artistic elements”.
One example of such a paradox is the two-line poem:
Even if he didn't
He did

A free eBook on "Paradoxism and Postmodernism" can be downloaded from https://zenodo.org/record/8865#.YIWBb_kvBhE. [ Charles Le ]

n., /mhw>, n. One who proposes a paradox. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Paradox + -logy. ] The use of paradoxes. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. para`doxos incredible, paradoxical + o'yra` tail. So called because its tail is unlike that of the other animals to which it was supposed to be related. ] (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A paradoxical statement; a paradox. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality or state of being paradoxical. Coleridge [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small California surf fish (Micrometrus aggregatus); -- called also shiner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sparadrap; cf. It. sparadrappo, NL. sparadrapa. ] 1. A cerecloth. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Any adhesive plaster. [ 1913 Webster ]

A parade to honor a person or persons, held in New York City, during which people in the tall buildings of Manhattan throw large quantities of paper, confetti, paper ribbons, or the like onto the parading group. The name comes form the ticker tape originally thrown onto the parade when it passed stockbrokers' offices in lower Manhattan, before stock tickers became obsolete; in subsequent years other types of waste paper were used to serve the honorary function, as well as paper tape distributed specifically for the purpose of being thrown in such a parade. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + paradise. ] To deprive of happiness like that of paradise; to render unhappy. [ R. ] Young. [ 1913 Webster ]