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Captive :: Captive (n.) One charmed or subdued by beaty, excellence, or affection; one who is captivated..

Ransom :: Ransom (n.) The release of a captive, or of captured property, by payment of a consideration; redemption; as, prisoners hopeless of ransom..

Captivity :: Captivity (n.) The state of being a captive or a prisoner.

Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like..

Catch :: Catch (v. t.) To take captive, as in a snare or net, or on a hook; as, to catch a bird or fish..

Captive :: Captive (a.) Subdued by love; charmed; captivated.

Captive :: Captive (a.) Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours..

Caitiff :: Caitiff (n.) A captive; a prisoner.

Captive :: Captive (a.) Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement..

Captive :: Captive (n.) A prisoner taken by force or stratagem, esp., by an enemy, in war; one kept in bondage or in the power of another..

Delivery :: Delivery (n.) The act of delivering from restraint; rescue; release; liberation; as, the delivery of a captive from his dungeon..

Captivate :: Captivate (p. a.) Taken prisoner; made captive; insnared; charmed.

Deliverance :: Deliverance (n.) The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive..

Bond :: Bond (a.) In a state of servitude or slavery; captive.

Prisoner :: Prisoner (n.) A person under arrest, or in custody, whether in prison or not; a person held in involuntary restraint; a captive; as, a prisoner at the bar of a court..

Captived :: Captived (imp. & p. p.) of Captiv.

Inthrall :: Inthrall (v. t.) To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave, vassal, or captive of; to enslave..

Caitiff :: Caitiff (a.) Captive; wretched; unfortunate.

Captive :: Captive (v. t.) To take prisoner; to capture.

Trinitarian :: Trinitarian (n.) One of a monastic order founded in Rome in 1198 by St. John of Matha, and an old French hermit, Felix of Valois, for the purpose of redeeming Christian captives from the Mohammedans..

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