captivate
English
Etymology
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Borrowed from Latin captīvō; synchronically analyzable as captive + -ate.
Pronunciation
Verb
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- To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
- (Can we date this quote by Washington Irving and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- small landscapes of captivating loveliness
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- 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 […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.
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- (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
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- Their woes whom fortune captivates.
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- '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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Translations
to attract and hold interest and attention of
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Anagrams
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) captīvāte
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