captivate

UK /ˈkæptɪveɪt/US /ˈkæptəˌveɪt/

verb3

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To attract and hold (someone's) attention and interest; to charm, to entrance, to fascinate, to enchain.
- Hir slippers rauyshed his eyes, hir bewtye captyuated his mynde, with the swerde smote she of his neck. — 1535
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(no longer used) To make (a person, an animal, etc.) a captive; to take prisoner; to capture, to subdue.
- Hovv ill-beseeming is it in thy Sex, / To triumph like an Amazonian Trull, / Vpon their VVoes, vvhom Fortune captiuates? — 1591
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(figurative, no longer used) To capture or control (the mind, etc.); to subdue, to subjugate.
- 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. — 1603

captivate

UK /ˈkæptɪvət/US /ˈkæptəˌvət/

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(no longer used) Made captive; taken prisoner; captured, subdued.
- Tush, vvomen haue bene captiuate ere novv. — 1591

forms

captivated · captivating · captivates · captivateth · captivatest · more captivate · most captivate