captivate

Borrowed from Latin captīvō; synchronically analyzable as captive +‎ -ate.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæptɪveɪt/

captivate (third-person singular simple present captivates, present participle captivating, simple past and past participle captivated)

1. To attract and hold interest and attention of; charm.
   • Washington Irving

     small landscapes of captivating loveliness

   • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 3, in The Mirror and the Lamp:

     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 informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience with a remark about cough lozenges being cheap and easily procurable.

2. (obsolete) To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue.
   • Shakespeare

     Their woes whom fortune captivates.

   • Glanvill

     'Tis a greater credit to know the ways of captivating Nature, and making her subserve our purposes, than to have learned all the intrigues of policy.

• captative

captīvāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of captīvō