Verb

(captivat)

To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.

* Washington Irving

small landscapes of captivating loveliness

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(obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.

* Shakespeare

Their woes whom fortune captivates .

* Glanvill

'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.

Verb

(encapsulat)

(label) To enclose something as if in a capsule.

* 2014 Feb. 9, Matthew L. Wald, " Nuclear Waste Solution Seen in Desert Salt Beds," New York Times (retrieved 14 June 2014):

At a rate of six inches a year, the salt closes in on the waste and encapsulates it for what engineers say will be millions of years.

(label) To epitomize something by expressing it as a brief summary.

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To enclose objects in a common interface in a way that makes them interchangeable, and guards their states from invalid changes.

(label) To enclose data in packets that can be transmitted using a given protocol.