different between elysian vs paradisal

English

elysian (not comparable)

Alternative letter-case form of Elysian.
- 1774, James Beattie, The Minstrel, or, The Progress of Genius. A Poem. The Second Book, London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly in the Poultry, and William Creech, Edinburgh, ?OCLC; republished as The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius: In Two Books. With Some Other Poems, London: Printed by T. Gillet, for C[harles] Dilly, in the Poultry, and W[illiam] Creech, Edinburgh, 1797, ?OCLC, stanza XXXVI, page 55:
  O who of man the story will unfold, / Ere victory and empire wrought annoy, / In that elysian age (misnamed of gold) / The age of love, and innocence and joy, […]

From paradise +? -al.

(UK) IPA^(key): /pa???d??s(?)l/, /pa???d??z(?)l/

paradisal (comparative more paradisal, superlative most paradisal)

Like paradise; paradisiacal.
- 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage 2010, p. 35:
  The garden had been planted by the god Yahweh, who had caused a spring to gush forth in the eastern desert to create a paradisal oasis.

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