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To charm ; to overpower with excellence ; to fubdue.— 
Wifdom enters the laft, and fo captivates him with her ap¬ 
pearance, that he gives himfelf up to her. Addifon .— To 
enflave: with to. —They lay a trap for themfelves, and 
captivate their underftandings to miftake, falfhood, and er¬ 
ror. Locke. 
CAPTIVATION, f. The aft of taking one captive. 
CAPTIVE, f. \_captif, Fr. captivus, Lat.] One taken in 
war; a prilbner to an enemy : 
You have the captives, 
Who were the oppofites of this day’s ftrife. S/ia/ieJpeare, 
It is ufed with to before the captor : 
My mother, who the royal feeptre fway’d. 
Was captive to the cruel viftor made. Dryden. 
One charmed or enfnared by beauty or excellence: 
My woman’s heart 
Grofsly grew captive to his honey words. Shakefpeare. 
CAPTIVE, adj. [captivus, Lat.] Made prifoner in war; 
kept in bondage or confinement, by whate ver means: 
But fate forbids; the Stygian floods oppofe, 
And with nine circling ftreams the captive fouls enclofe. 
Dryden. 
To CAPTIVE, v. a. To take prifoner ; to bring into 
a condition of fervitude: 
Still lay the god : the nymph furpris’d. 
Yet miftrefs of herfelf, devis’d 
How die the vagrant might inthral. 
And captive him who captives all. Prior. 
CAPTIV'ITY,y. [ captivite , Fr .captivitas, Lat.] Subjec¬ 
tion by the fate of war; bondage; fervitude to enemies: 
There in captivity he lets them dwell 
The fpace of feventy years; then brings them back; 
Rememb’ring mercy. Milton. 
Slavery; fervitude : 
When love’s well tim’d, ’tis not a fault to love ; 
The ftrong, the brave, the virtuous, and the wife, 
Sink in the foft captivity together. Addifon. 
Captivity, in the feripture fenfe, was a punifhment 
which God inflifted upon his people for their vices and 
infidelity. The firft of thefe captivities is that of Egypt, 
from which Mofes delivered them; after which, are rec¬ 
koned fix during the government of the Judges : but the 
greatell and molt remarkable were thofe of Judah and If- 
rael, which happened under the kings of each of thefe 
kingdoms. It is generally believed, that the ten tribes of 
Ifrael never came back again after their difperfion; and 
Jofephus and St. Jerome are of this opinion : neverthelefs, 
when we examine the writings of the prophets, we find 
the return of Ifrael from captivity pointed out in a man¬ 
ner altnoft as clear as that of the tribes of Benjamin and 
Judah. See Hofea i. 10, u. Amos ix. 14. The capti¬ 
vities of Judah are generally reckoned four; the fourth and 
lad of which fell in the year of the world 3416, under 
Sedekiah : and from this period begins the feventy years 
captivity foretold by Jeremiah, and to which Milton al¬ 
ludes above. Since the deftruftion of the temple by the 
Romans, the Hebrews boaft that they have always had 
their heads or particular princes, whom they call princes 
of the captivity, in the eaft and well. The princes of the 
captivity in the eaft governed the Jews that dwelt in Ba¬ 
bylon, Aflyria, and Perfia; and the princes of the capti¬ 
vity in the weft governed thofe who dwelt in Judasa, 
Egypt, Italy, and other parts of the Roman empire. He 
whorelided in Judaea commonly took up his abode at Ti¬ 
berias, and affumed the name of Rofchabbotk, “head of the 
fathers or patriarchs.” He prefided in aftemblies, decided 
in cafes of confcience, levied taxes for the expences of 
his vifits, and had officers under him who were difpatched 
through the provinces for the execution of his orders. As 
to the princes of the captivity at Babylon, or the eaft, we 
know neither the origin nor luccellion of them. It only 
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appears that they were not in being at the end of the fe» 
cond century. 
CAPTOR, f. [from capio, Lat. to take.] He that takes 
a prifoner, or a prize. 
CAPTURE, f. [ capture, Fr. captura, Lat.] The ait or 
practice of taking any thing.—The great fagacity, and 
many artifices, ufed by birds, in the inveftigation and cap¬ 
ture of their prey. Derham. —The thing taken ; a prize. 
Captures made at fea were formerly held to be the pro¬ 
perty of the captors after a pofleffion of twenty-four hours; 
but the modern authorities require, that, before the pro¬ 
perty can be changed, the goods mull have been brought 
into port, and have continued a night intra prafidia, in a 
place of falfe cuftody, fo that all hope of recovering them 
was loft. 
CAP'UA, a city of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples*, 
and country of Lavora : built in the ninth century, at fiome 
diltance from the ruins of ancient Capua, fituated on the 
Volturno, at the foot of a mountain ; the fee of an arch- 
bilhop, founded in the year 968. It contains, belides the ca¬ 
thedral, one collegiate, fixteen parilh churches, and twelve 
convents. It is famous for the abode of Hannibal the Car¬ 
thaginian general, after the battle of Cannae, and where? 
Livy accufes him, but unjuftly, of having enervated liim- 
lelf with pleafure : fifteen miles north of Naples.' Lat, 
41. 5. N. Ion. 31. 51. E. Ferro. Damaged by an earthquake 
July 26, 1805. 
CAPU'CCIO, or Capu'che,/ [Italian.] A capuchin, 
or monk’s hood.—That at his back a brode capuccio had*' 
Spenfer. 
CAPU'CHED, adj. [from capucc, Fr. a hood.] Cover¬ 
ed over as with a hood.—They are differently cucullated 
and capuched upon the head and back ; and, in trhe cicada, 
the eyes are more prominent. Brown. 
CAPUCHI'N, f. A female garment, confifting of a 
cloak and hood, made in imitation of the drefs of capu¬ 
chin monks ; whence its name is derived. 
CAPUCHPNS, f. [from capuce, or capuchon, a ftuff cap, 
or cowl, wherewith they cover their heads.] An order of 
St. Francis, in its ftrifteft obfervance. They are clothed 
with brown or grey ; always bare-footed ; are never to go 
in a coach, nor ever (have the head. The capuchins are 
a reform made from the order of Minors, commonly called 
cordeliers, fet on foot in the 16th century by Matthew 
Baf’che, a religious obfervant, of the mor.aftery of Monte- 
fiafeone ; who, being at Rome, faid he was advertifed fe- 
veral times from heaven, to p Tactile the rule of St. Francis 
to the letter. Upon this lie made application to pope 
Clement in 1525 ; who gave him permiifion to retire into 
a lolitude, with as many others as choie to embrace the 
ftrifl obfervance. In 1528, they obtained the pope’s bull. 
In 1529, the order was brought into complete form ; Mat¬ 
thew was elefted general, and the chapter made conftitu- 
tions. In 1543, the right of preaching was taken from 
the capuchins by the pope; but in 1545 it was reftored 
to them again with honour. In 1578, there were feven- 
teen general chapters in the order of capuchins. 
CAP'ULUM,yi [from y.a.ij.itla, Gr. to bend.] A con¬ 
tortion of the eye- lids, or other parts. 
CAPU'RA, f. in botany, a genus of the clafs hexan- 
dria, order monogynia. The generic characters are— 
Calyx: none. Corolla: monopetalous, tubular; tube 
cylindric : border fix-parted ; divifions rounded ; the ex¬ 
terior alternate ones narrower. Stamina : filaments hardly 
any ; antherae fix, oblong, within the tube ; the alternate 
ones fuperior. Piftillum: germ fuperior, triangularly- 
roundifh, truncate; ftyle cylindrical, very fhort; ftigma 
nearly globofe.— EJfential Cbaradcr. Calyx none ; corolla 
fix-cleft; Itamina within the tube ; germ fuperior; ftigma 
globular; pericarpium a berry. 
There is only one fpecies, Capura purpurata. It is a- 
tree with brachiate purplifh branches; leaves oppofite, 
ovate, lharpifh, annual; bunches of flowers axillary, 
fhorter than the leaves, purple. Native of the Eaft-Indies 
CAPUR'SO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples ; three miles and a half fouth-eaft of Bari. 
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