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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Animals that live under human care are in captivity . Captivity can be used as a generalizing term to describe the keeping of either domesticated animals ( livestock and pets ) or wild animals. This may include, for example, farms , private homes, zoos ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Captivity \Cap*tiv"i*ty\, n. [L. captivitas: cf. F. captivit['e].] The state of being a captive or a prisoner. More celebrated in his captivity that in his greatest triumphs. --Dryden. A state of being under control; subjection of the will or affections; ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon" [syn: imprisonment ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., Old French *captivite or directly from Latin captivitatem (nominative captivitas ), from captivus (see captive (n.)). An Old English cognate word for it was gehæftnes (see haft ).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB breed ▪ Adults are easy to keep in aquaria for they rarely climb out if well-treated, and will breed freely in captivity . ▪ Given optimum conditions, Oscars will breed in captivity , but sexing is difficult. ▪ Few fishkeepers ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being captive. 2 (context obsolete English) A group of people/beings captive. 3 The state or period of being imprisoned, confined, or enslaved.
Usage examples of captivity.
A knight of Assisi, perhaps one of those who had been in captivity with him at Perugia, was preparing to go to Apulia under orders from Count Gentile.
They lost it in the Babylonish captivity, and never afterwards recovered it.
Thirdly, we have unquestionable proofs that, during the period from the Babylonish captivity to the advent of Christ, the Jews borrowed and adapted a great deal from the Persian theology, but no proof that the Persians took any thing from the Jewish theology.
This plainly denotes their present suffering in the Babylonish captivity, and their despair of being delivered from it.
It appears from his prayer, that he supposed the Babylonish captivity of seventy years, would terminate the chastisement of his nation.
Philippine roads, columns of unshaven, ragged, bowed Americans march to captivity from Bataan under the guns of scowling yellow dwarfs.
Harry, that Roscoes cannot breed in captivity and that Chandu the Magician is a cousin of the condor at Santa Barbara.
A warming sight after months in captivity in the pastoral wilds of New England, stately trees, broad avenues, white Congregationalist churches, blue-eyed people.
Among the other Sotharians in captivity were the old wise man or shaman of the tribe, a personage called Coph, who bore a marked resemblance to Professor Potter, being skinny and white-bearded and baldish.
They eat mainly grass and greenstuffs, so what is the harm in encouraging their multiplication in captivity?
The Prince of the Captivity was to direct his course into the heart of those great deserts which, in his flight from Hamadan, he had only skirted.
France kept the Inglesi at a distance--I know not how it is, signore, but they say the barbarians are always hardest on the enemies of Inghilterra--but, the past season a boat, from a rover had seized upon my uncle and myself and were carrying us off into captivity, when a Frenchman and his lugger rescued us.
He had contributed one of the most unusual of the exhibits which filled a glass case against a wall: the doll-size, shrunken body of his eight-year-old son, born to him during his captivity, by his Jivaro wife.
Steeley, we have all heard ACOAs and AlaTeens and ACONAs and ACOGs and WHINERS relate clear cases of different kinds of abuse: beatings, diddlings, rapes, deprivations, domineerment, humiliation, captivity, torture, excessive criticism or even just utter disinterest.
At least until Mardi Gras, when the threshold between this world and Kolasis would be thin enough to breach so that they could release the Atlantean Destroyer from captivity.