Meanings (ES + gloss)
captivar (desus.) • cautivar • embelesar
To attract and hold (someone's) attention and interest; to charm, to entrance, to fascinate, to enchain.
Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth.
One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his inform…