Captivate vs Captivator - What's the difference?
captivate | captivator |
To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
* Washington Irving
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, title= (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
* Shakespeare
* Glanvill
A person who captivates, or holds one captive.
* 1858 Mary Cowden Clarke - World-noted Women: Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages
As a verb captivate
is to attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.As a noun captivator is
a person who captivates, or holds one captive.captivate
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Verb
(captivat)- small landscapes of captivating loveliness
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=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.}}
- Their woes whom fortune captivates .
- '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.
Anagrams
* ----captivator
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Noun
(en noun)- Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts.