captived

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adjective

Captured; captive.

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Meanings

verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of captive
adjectivecaptived (comparative more captived, superlative most captived)

comparative more captived · superlative most captived

  1. obsoleteCaptured; captive.

    But the captiv'd Acrasia he sent, / Because of traveill long, a nigher way [...].

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From captive + -ed.

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MLA

“captived.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/captived. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “captived,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/captived.

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