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captivate(dictionary)
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person(1) (iou) and captivate (iou)


person(1) (iou)



person noun. Also parson. ME.
[Old French persone (mod. personne) from Latin persona mask used by an actor, a person who plays a part (also in senses 2, 6, 7 below). Cf. PARSON.]
I.
A part played in a drama or in actual life; a character (in a play or story); a persona; a guise. Now chiefly in persons of the drama, = DRAMATIS PERSONAE. ME.
Look Now I take on a different person with every song I sing.
II.
An individual human being; spec. a human being as opp. to a thing or an animal. ME.
M. L. King It was necessary to employ an office staff of ten persons. M. Sarton Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second. M. Flanagan You're just the nicest, smartest person. G. Boddy The person to whom Kathleen turned..for love and understanding. A. Phillips The infant sought contact with a person, not..gratification from an object.
b. Any individual, one. colloq. L18.
Yeats It makes a person be thinking of..death and judgement.
c. An individual of inferior status. L18.
F. Burney This person wishes for a longer conference with you.
d. As 2nd elem. of comb. (replacing man or woman in order to avoid sexual distinction): a man or woman having a specified profession, occupation, or office. L20.
chairperson, salesperson, etc.
e. An individual characterized by a preference or liking for a specified thing. L20.
T. Heald I should say you're more of a cat person.
a. With specifying word: an individual regarded in terms of his or her appearance or figure. Now rare or obsolete. ME.
L. Sterne A pale thin person of a man.
b. The living body of an individual, regarded either together with its clothing and adornments or simply as the physical form or figure. LME.
Notes & Queries These they put in their hats, or anywhere about their persons. L. Durrell As for money..he..would never carry it on his person. Q. Bell His person was pleasing, his manners courtly. Joan Smith Her long blonde hair tumbled artistically about her person.
The actual self or being of an individual. Chiefly with possess. ME.
E. Feinstein She still saw God and the State united in the Tsar's person.
b. Bodily presence. obsolete exc. in in person below. L15.
Law. An individual (also natural person) or a group of individuals as a corporation (also artificial person), regarded as having rights and duties recognized by the law. LME.
b. euphem. The genitals; spec. the penis. E19.
III.
Christian Theology. (Usu. Person.)
a. Each of the three modes of being of the Godhead, the Father (First Person), the Son (Second Person), or the Holy Spirit (Third Person), who together constitute the Trinity. ME.
b. The personality of Christ, esp. as uniting his divine and human natures. M16.
Grammar. Each of the classes of personal pronouns and corresponding verbal forms (of which there are three in modern English) denoting or indicating the participant(s) in or individual(s) referred to in speech or Writing. E16.
M. Gee He..had practised his French..always forgetting the persons, always forgetting the Mademoiselle.
Philosophy. A self-conscious or rational (esp. embodied) being. M17.
Phrases: accept persons, accept the person of show favouritism (to). displaced person: see DISPLACE verb. first person (a) Grammar the person denoting or indicating the individual etc. speaking or Writing; (b) (F- P-) see sense 6a above. in one's own person (a) = in person below; (b) as oneself. in person with one's own bodily presence; personally. in the person of (a) in the character of, representing; (b) (as) represented by. legal person: see LEGAL adjective. NETHER person. person of confidence: see CONFIDENCE noun 6. purse and person: see PURSE noun. respect persons, respect the person of show favouritism (to). second person (a) Grammar the person denoting or indicating the individual etc. addressed; (b) (S- P-) see sense 6a above. third person (a) = third party s.v. THIRD adjective & noun; (b) Grammar the person denoting or indicating the individual etc. referred to; (c) (T- P-) see sense 6a above.
Comb.: person-day, person-hour, etc., a day, hour, etc., of one person's work etc., as a unit of measure; person-object Psychology a person as the object of one's thoughts etc.; person-to-person (a) between individuals; (b) (of a telephone call) booked through the operator to a specific person.

captivate (iou)



captivate verb trans. E16.
[Late Latin captivat- pa. ppl stem of captivare: see CAPTIVE verb, -ATE3.]
Subjugate (the mind, reason, etc.) to. E16-M19.
Enthrall, fascinate, charm. M16.
Make or hold captive, capture. Now rare or obsolete. M16.
b. spec. = CAPTURE verb 2. L18.
captivate ppl adjective captivated M16-L17.
captivater noun (now rare) M17.
captivatingly adverb in a captivating manner M19.
captivator noun M19.