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/kˈæptɪvˌeɪt/ Listen

verb

Captivate v. t. (past & past part. captivated; pres. part. captivating)

To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. (Obs.) "Their woes whom fortune captivates."

To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts. "Small landscapes of captivating loveliness."

Synonyms: To enslave; subdue; overpower; charm; enchant; bewitch; facinate; capture; lead captive.

adjective

Captivate adj. Taken prisoner; made captive; insnared; charmed. "Women have been captivate ere now."

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Etymology of 'Captivate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... to captivate Jove, her zone is fringed with a hundred tassels, and her ear-rings are described in terms corresponding exactly to the triple leaves ...

— Museum of Antiquity - A Description of Ancient Life • L. W. Yaggy

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... merely professed to have attained it by a different route. The innovation for which they claimed credit is a matter of method, of technique. Their deliberate purpose is to surprise us by the fidelity of their studies, to captivate and convince us by an accumulation of exact minutiae: in a word, to prove that truth is more interesting than fiction. So history should be written, and so they wrote it. First and last, whatever form they chose, they remained historians. Alleging the ...

— Rene Mauperin • Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt

... her defects may be ascribed to her education and to the actual state of the society in which she lived. Her virtues were inherent in her character; every day developed them more and more, and they were such as to make the happiness of all who lived with her and to captivate the affection of all who really knew her. I have never lost anyone I loved before, and though I know the grief I now feel will soon subside (for so the laws of nature have ordained), long, long will it be before I forget her, or before my ...

— The Greville Memoirs - A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William - IV, Volume 1 (of 3) • Charles C. F. Greville

... we are absolutely satisfied. I have before me on the mantelpiece yonder a portrait of a painting which represents Queen Mary's Bothwell. Take it down and look at it. Mark the big head, fit to conceive large schemes; the strong animal face, made to captivate a sensitive, feminine woman; the brutally forceful features—the mouth with a suggestion of wild boars' tusks behind it, the beard which could bristle with fury: the whole man and his life-history are revealed in that picture. I wonder if Scott had ...

— Through the Magic Door • Arthur Conan Doyle

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