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captivator
captivator
English
Noun
captivator (plural captivators)
- 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
- Had she been the mere adroit captivator some-times imagined, she could never have exercised this posthumous ascendency over Petrarch's thoughts.
- 1858 Mary Cowden Clarke - World-noted Women: Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Lands and Ages
Latin
Verb
captīvātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of captīvō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of captīvō
References
- captivator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “captivator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.