Especially a prisoner of war

Usage examples of captive.

It was not quite the same as being held captive in Abaddon, but it was not very different, either.

He fell in battle with a company of Abyssinian cavalry that held me captive.

One day he found among his latest batch of captives a young Acholi boy named Haradi, no more than ten years old, and decided to keep him as a personal servant rather than ship him across the ocean.

Great numbers of the Alani, appeased by the punctual discharge of the engagements which Aurelian had contracted with them, relinquished their booty and captives, and quietly retreated to their own deserts, beyond the Phasis.

Bullen first found himself in the water, then dragged from it into a canoe, and a moment later a helplessly bound captive at the mercy of an enraged foe.

Then while the Atabeg stood trembling and uncertain, at a loss for the first and only time of his whole wild career, du Courcey backed toward the door, holding his captive, who neither cried out nor struggled.

He was the son of Brunehild, whom the Austrasians had preserved after the murder of their king, and as a guardian for whom they had insisted on the return, by Chilperic, of the captive queen.

Prince Kayan, but if a Bactrian prince was offering a reward of a hundred prime horses to buy back a captive, it had to be he.

The questions posed to the prisoners--both the Bahraini group and the two sets of captives in Saudi Arabia--were pointed.

He went off with Baya, who looked back once over her shoulder as the men-at-arms moved in with leather thongs and began to bind the captives.

England had outlawed bearbaiting and the last captive bear had been ransomed.

For the past week in the 8-ball and experimental hives, McAllister had been conducting tests on the captive bees from Maryville to establish their capabilities.

He begs them, if he be taken, to return him whatever may be in his cell, but if he succeed he gives the whole to Francis Soradaci, who is still a captive for want of courage to escape, not like me preferring liberty to life.

Its hull, rugose with damage, bulged out on all sides past the considerable bulk of the captive bioresearch station.

A wandering tribe of the Blemmyes or Nubians invaded his solitary prison: in their retreat they dismissed a crowd of useless captives: but no sooner had Nestorius reached the banks of the Nile, than he would gladly have escaped from a Roman and orthodox city, to the milder servitude of the savages.