Captiver

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Today an entry at random from La Dictionnaire Comique, Satyrique, Critique, Burlesque, Libre et Proverbial. 1752


Captiver.

Ce mot n'est pas fort usité au propre.

Il a beaucoup de grace au figuré, où il signifie aussi gagner, assujettir. Je rirai au galans, que vous viendrons captiver. Sarrazin.

Il faut captiver son esprit, pour l'assujettir à a fois.


More on the La Dictionnaire Comique, Satyrique, Critique, Burlesque, Libre et Proverbial. 1752: A dictionary of popular usage, slang and proverbs. The work was censured by later critics for including indecencies and low-life jargon, so I am not likely to be translating it for you, am I, now??? Anyway, it remains a pioneer work in the field and invaluable for study of works in the vernacular from Rabelais onwards.

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