See captivate on Wiktionary
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"ref": "c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], page 151, column 2:",
"text": "Hovv ill-beſeeming is it in thy Sex, / To triumph like an Amazonian Trull, / Vpon their VVoes, vvhom Fortune captiuates?",
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"ref": "1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Relations of the Regions and Religions in Africa.] Of Africa, and the Creatures therein.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book VI (Of Ægypt, Barbarie, Numidia, Libya, and the Land of Negros; and of Their Religions), page 466:",
"text": "Dabuh is the name of a ſimple and baſe creature like a VVolfe, ſaue that his legges and feete are like to a mans: ſo fooliſh, that vvith a ſong, & a Taber, they vvhich knovv his haunt vvill bring him out of his denne, and captiue his eares vvith their muſicke, vvhile another captiuateth his legges vvith a Rope.",
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"ref": "1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of the Institution and Education of Children; to the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 82:",
"text": "Hee hath no skill in Rhetoricke, nor can hee vvith a preface fore-ſtall and captivate the Gentle Readers good vvill: nor careth he greatly to knovve it.",
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"ref": "1611, [Miles Smith], “The Translators to the Reader”, in The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "They that are vviſe, had rather haue their iudgements at libertie in differences of readings, then to be captiuated to one, vvhen it may be the other.",
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"ref": "1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:",
"text": "'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.",
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"ref": "1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Judith xvj:[9], folio xxix, verso, column 2:",
"text": "Hir ſlippers rauyſhed his eyes, hir bewtye captyuated his mynde, with the swerde ſmote ſhe of his neck.",
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"ref": "1594, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC, [verse 47], signature Cij, verso, lines [280–282]:",
"text": "[L]oe thus my ſtrength is tride. / And this I do to captiuate the eye, / Of the faire breeder that is ſtanding by.",
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"ref": "1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], “A Discovery—Waverly Becomes Domesticated at Tully-Veolan”, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 207:",
"text": "Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth.",
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"ref": "1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC, page 26:",
"text": "One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis and another boy interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.",
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"(figuratively) To attract and hold (someone's) attention and interest; to charm, to entrance, to fascinate, to enchain."
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"word": "accattivare"
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"word": "attirare l'attenzione"
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"word": "catturare"
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"alt": "ひきつける",
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"roman": "hikitsukeru",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "惹き付ける"
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"word": "о́свои"
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"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "kiehtoa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "captiver"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "bestechen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "bezaubern"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "entzücken"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "faszinieren"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "fesseln"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "elbűvöl"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "elragadtat"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "lebilincsel"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "lefegyverez"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "lenyűgöz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "levesz a lábáról"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "magával ragad"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "megbabonáz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "meghódít"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "megigéz"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "megnyer"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "megragad"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "rabul ejt"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "accattivare"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "attirare l'attenzione"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "attrarre"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "catturare"
},
{
"alt": "ひきつける",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "hikitsukeru",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "惹き付ける"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "máǵepsa",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "ма́ѓепса"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ósvoi",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "о́свои"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "ātahu"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "cativar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "očaróvyvatʹ",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "очаро́вывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "očarovátʹ",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "очарова́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "plenjátʹ",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "пленя́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "plenítʹ",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "плени́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "začaróvyvatʹ",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "зачаро́вывать"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "začarovátʹ",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "зачарова́ть"
},
{
"code": "gd",
"lang": "Scottish Gaelic",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "beò-ghlac"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"tags": [
"Cyrillic"
],
"word": "оча́рати"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"tags": [
"Roman"
],
"word": "očárati"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "cautivar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "captivar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "embelesar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "encelerar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to attract and hold (someone’s) attention and interest",
"word": "fängsla"
}
],
"word": "captivate"
}
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"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English heteronyms",
"English lemmas",
"English terms suffixed with -ate (adjective)",
"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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"name": "af"
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],
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{
"form": "more captivate",
"tags": [
"comparative"
]
},
{
"form": "most captivate",
"tags": [
"superlative"
]
}
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"ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v], page 116, column 1:",
"text": "Tuſh, vvomen haue bene captiuate ere novv.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1610, William Camden, “Wilshire”, in Philémon Holland, transl., Britain, or A Chorographicall Description of the Most Flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland, […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press for] Georgii Bishop & Ioannis Norton, →OCLC, page 247:",
"text": "VVhat is Gods houſe in Caſtle pent, but like that Arke of bliſſe / In Balaims temple Captivate? Ech place a priſon is.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
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"Made captive; taken prisoner; captured, subdued."
],
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"Made",
"make#Verb"
],
[
"captive",
"captive#Adjective"
],
[
"taken",
"take#Verb"
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[
"prisoner",
"prisoner"
],
[
"captured",
"capture#Adjective"
],
[
"subdued",
"subdued#Adjective"
]
],
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"(also figuratively, obsolete) Made captive; taken prisoner; captured, subdued."
],
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}
],
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"ipa": "/ˈkæptɪvət/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈkæptəˌvət/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "captivate"
}
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"form": "captīvāte",
"tags": [
"canonical"
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}
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"head": "captīvāte"
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"Latin entries with incorrect language header",
"Latin non-lemma forms",
"Latin verb forms",
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"word": "captīvō"
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"second-person plural present active imperative of captīvō"
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[
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],
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}
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