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adjective

Captive adj.

Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement. "A poor, miserable, captive thrall."

Subdued by love; charmed; captivated. "Even in so short a space, my wonan's heart Grossly grew captive to his honey words."

Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours.

noun

Captive n.

A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another. "Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains."

One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.

verb

Captive v. t. (past & past part. captived; pres. part. captiving) To take prisoner; to capture. "Their inhabitans slaughtered and captived."

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Etymology of 'Captive'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Captive" Quotes from Famous Books

... here, and what it teaches us as a fact. Is it not a revelation of Jesus Christ as the absolute Lord of Life and Death, giving the one, putting back the other? Death has caught hold of his prey. 'Shall the prey be taken from the mighty, and the lawful captive delivered? Yea, the prey shall be taken from the mighty.' His bare word is divinely operative. He says to that grisly shadow 'Come!' and he cometh; He says to him 'Go!' and he goeth. And as a shepherd will drive away the bear that has a ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren

... your confidence, my child, for I have been afflicted in my day; yet I too say with thee, 'I have not done wrong.' Cospetto!" (and here the doctor seated himself deliberately, resting one arm on the side column of the stocks, in familiar contact with the captive's shoulder, while his eye wandered over the lovely scene around)—"Cospetto! my prison, if they had caught me, would not have had so fair a look-out as this. But, to be sure, it is all one; there are no ugly loves, and no ...

— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... said the Northmen would kill us for keeping you captive. She wept and raved, and the cruel men dragged us away by force. Oh, ...

— The Little Duke - Richard the Fearless • Charlotte M. Yonge

... captive stood listening with shrewdly pricked ears while the mumble of voices died away toward the shack, steps stamped up on the porch, and the door slammed. Then he went cautiously round his prison, whiffing the sides, rearing up on the log walls. Across the ...

— Frank of Freedom Hill • Samuel A. Derieux

... was not one to go solemnly to work to compass an event that would cause joy in heaven. She would ask one to be a Christian as she would invite a captive to leave his dungeon, or tell the sick how to be well. She saw that morbid gloom had become almost a disease with Gregory, and she proposed to cure ...

— Opening a Chestnut Burr • Edward Payson Roe

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