caption (kapshon)

[L. captio (n-), a taking, seizing, fraud, deceit, fallacy, It is manifest that the use of this doctrine is for caption and contradiction. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. I beseech you, sir, to consider with what strange cар tions you have gone about to delude your king and country. Chilling worth , Relig. of Protestants, i. 2. 3. The act of taking or apprehending by a judicial proce . [Rare.]-4. In law, a certificate stating the time and place of executing a commi ion in chancery, or of taking a deposition, or of the finding of an indictment, and the court or authority before which such act 811 was performed, and such other particulars as are nece ary to render it legal and valid, written upon or attached to the document to which it relates.-5. The heading or title of a legal instrument or of a chapter, article, section, or page: as, the caption of Genesis i.; an editorial under the caption "A new Force in Politics." [U.S.] -Letters of caption, in Scots law, a writ (now obsolete) i ued at the instance of a creditor, commanding an officer to take and imprison a debtor or obligant till he pays the debt or performs the obligation. See horning. inc arc ce ion for the purpose of forcing back a proce , - caption, in Scots law, a summary warrant of that is, the documents or any document belonging to a lawsuit, which may have been unduly and contumaciously retained by the party whose receipt stands therefor in the court books. captive He deserves to be a slave that is content to have the Eikon Basilike. liberty of his will so captivated. God uses not to captivate [a man] under a perpetuall childhood of prescription, but trusts him with the gift of reason to be his own chooser. Milton, Areopagitica, p. 17. 3. To overpower and hold by excellence or beaut yang regard, esteem, or affections of; fascinate. Anon he rears upright, curvets and leaps, As who should say "Lo, thus my strength is tried; And this I do to captivate the eye." Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 281. Wisdom so captivates him with her appearance that he gives himself up to her. Add is on , Guardian. I was captivated with the beauty and retirement of the place. Steele , Spectator, No. 514. It is not merely what he [Chaucer] has to say, but even more the agreeable way he has of saying it, that captivates our attention and gives him an a ured place in literature. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 260. =Syn. 3. To enslave, enchant, lead captive, enamour, bewitch. cult to please; faultfinding; touchy: as, a cap tious man. A vulgar man is captious and jealous.