captivate
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Late Latin captīvātus, the perfect passive participle of captīvō (“to capture”), from Latin captīvus (“captive, prisoner”) (ultimately from capiō (“to capture, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to hold; to seize”)) + -ō (suffix forming first-conjugation verbs). Equivalent to captive + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Base: captive
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: captivates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: captivating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: captivated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: captivated
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: captivate
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: captivate
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: captivated
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: captivate
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: captivatest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: captivated
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: captivatedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: captivates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: captivateth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: captivated
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: captivate
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: captivated
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: captivate
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: captivated
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: captivate
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: captivating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: captivated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: To make (a person, an animal, etc.) a captive; to take prisoner; to capture, to subdue.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
examples: Hovv ill-beſeeming is it in thy Sex, / To triumph like an Amazonian Trull, / Vpon their VVoes, vvhom Fortune captiuates?
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.
gloss: To capture or control (the mind, etc.); to subdue, to subjugate.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
obsolete
transitive
examples: 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.
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.
'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.
gloss: To attract and hold (someone's) attention and interest; to charm, to entrance, to fascinate, to enchain.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Hir ſlippers rauyſhed his eyes, hir bewtye captyuated his mynde, with the swerde ſmote ſhe of his neck.
[L]oe thus my ſtrength is tride. / And this I do to captiuate the eye, / Of the faire breeder that is ſtanding by.
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.
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.
Related words: captivation
captive
capture
Derived words: captivated
captivating
captivator
captivatrix
decaptivate
recaptivate
uncaptivate
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