Definition of "paragoned" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of paragon. (verb)

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• "THE CAPTIVE having said this, held his peace; and Don Fernando replied to him thus: ‘Truly, captain, the manner wherewithal you have recounted this marvellous success hath been such as it may be paragoned to the novelty and strangeness of the event itself."
• "The Cavaliere, indeed, as became a poet, paragoned her in his song to all the pagan goddesses of antiquity; and doubtless these were finer to look at than mere women; but so, it seemed, was she; for, to believe my grandmother, she made other women look no more than the big French fashion-doll that used to be shown on Ascension days in the Piazza."
• "'Arikes Hedlor to the ground, 57 — — ftands the centre and the foul of all, 150 paragoned to none but Achilles, Tent. xxxv."