Crossword clues for captive
captive
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Captive \Cap"tive\, a.
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Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement.
A poor, miserable, captive thrall.
--Milton. -
Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.
Even in so short a space, my wonan's heart Grossly grew captive to his honey words.
--Shak. Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours.
Captive \Cap"tive\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Captived; p. pr. & vb. n. Captiving.] To take prisoner; to capture.
Their inhabitans slaughtered and captived.
--Burke.
Captive \Cap"tive\, n. [L. captivus, fr. capere to take: cf. F. captif. See Caitiff.]
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A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another.
Then, when I am thy captive, talk of chains.
--Milton. One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "imprisoned, enslaved," from Latin captivus "caught, taken prisoner," from captus, past participle of capere "to take, hold, seize" (see capable). As a noun from c.1400; an Old English noun was hæftling, from hæft "taken, seized."
Wiktionary
a. 1 Held prisoner; not free; confined. 2 Subdued by love; charmed; captivated. 3 Of or relating to bondage or confinement; serving to confine. n. One who has been captured or is otherwise confined.
WordNet
n. a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war [syn: prisoner]
an animal that is confined
a person held in the grip of a strong emotion or passion
adj. in captivity [syn: confined, imprisoned, jailed]
deeply moved; "sat completely still, enraptured by the music"; "listened with rapt admiration"; "rapt in reverie" [syn: enraptured, rapt]
Wikipedia
The soundtrack for the 1986 Anglo-French cinema film Captive is the only solo album to date by The Edge, guitarist of U2. It is also the only solo album to date by one of the members of U2.
The Edge approached Michael Brook, creator of the Infinite Guitar, which The Edge regularly uses, to collaborate on this soundtrack album; Brook co-produced and helped with the instrumentals and some of the writing.
Edge also approached a young vocalist just beginning to appear on the Dublin scene to provide vocals for the main theme. This was Sinéad O'Connor, who would shortly afterwards release her debut album. She and The Edge's U2 bandmate Larry Mullen, Jr. contributed to "Heroine", with O'Connor providing lead vocals and Mullen providing drums.
The music on Captive is a mix of ambient styles. The majority of tracks, except tracks 2 and 4 are instrumentals. The track "Heroine" was released as a single.
Captive is a science fiction role-playing video game released by Mindscape in 1990. A Dungeon Master "clone", it featured pseudo 3D realtime graphics from a first-person perspective.
The player characters are androids (termed " droids" in the game) operated remotely by a prisoner trying to free himself. The player assumes the role of the prisoner, and the game involves visiting and destroying a series of bases on different planets.
It was released on Amiga, Atari ST and PC (1992) platforms.
Captive is a 2003 film that concerns itself with what happened to the children of the people killed after the 1970s military coup. The film states it was made with the support of Argentine National Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts. Captive was an award winner at the 2003 San Sebastian Film Festival.
Captive is a 1998 American drama film. The film stars Erika Eleniak and Michael Ironside.
Captive or Captives may refer to:
- Captive (video game), a 1990 computer role-playing game
- Captive (soundtrack), the only solo album to date by The Edge, guitarist of U2
- Captive! the eighth novel in World of Adventure series by Gary Paulsen
Captive is a 2012 French-Filipino drama film directed by Brillante Mendoza and starring Isabelle Huppert. The film was screened in competition at the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival in February 2012.
The plot focuses on describing the torturous life of the hostages of the Dos Palmas kidnappings, whose survivors were freed after a year in captivity.
Captive is a 1986 Anglo-French cinema film loosely based on the experiences of Patty Hearst.
The daughter ( Irina Brook) of a wealthy businessman ( Oliver Reed) is kidnapped by a terrorist group, and through manipulation psychologically subordinated and led from the cultural and emotional imprisonment of her former life to the liberation of theirs.
The soundtrack was provided by the The Edge and Michael Brook working with Sinead O'Connor.
Captive was a New Zealand reality TV show that was broadcast on TV2 at 7 pm on week nights, the timeslot usually occupied by Shortland Street, in early 2004.
Captive is a 2015 American crime- drama thriller film directed by Jerry Jameson and written by Brian Bird and Reinhard Denke, based on the non-fiction book Unlikely Angel by Ashley Smith.
A true story about Brian Nichols, who escapes from the Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta on March 11, 2005 and holds Ashley Smith as a hostage, the film stars David Oyelowo as Nichols and Kate Mara as Smith. Filming began in October 2013 in North Carolina. The film was released worldwide on September 18, 2015 by Paramount Pictures.
Captive (2008) - the Russian-Bulgarian film by Alexei Uchitel on the novel by Vladimir Makanin Caucasian captive. The working title of the film was also Caucasian captive.
Premiere of the film took place September 5, 2008 in St. Petersburg. The Russian film movie came out September 11, 2008.
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.