Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word captu.

Examples

  • That #2 Al Qaeda leader in Iraq who was just captu...

    09/03/2006 2006

  • Prized above every trophy, a Hirogen hunter can become an Alpha Hirogen with one simple captu—the skeleton of Borg Destruction of this ship forced the hunter team to the planet surface and into the collective nightmares of the Sakari.

    Star Trek Michael Jan Friedman 1999

  • Caesaris militem fecit; quippe protinus ab adoptione missus cum eo praefectus equitum in Germaniam, successor officii patris mei, caelestissimorum eius operum per annos continuos viii. praefectus aut legatus spectator et pro captu mediocritatis meae adiutor fui. '

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • "We know nothing of the people who inhabit this country, and if you should chance to miss the wall when you bound upwards you would become a prisoner and be at the mercy of those who captu red you."

    John Dough And The Cherub Baum, L. Frank 1906

  • _Pro captu lectoris_; if the reader likes them, then they are good for the reader: "good absolute, not for me though," perhaps.

    Essays in Little Andrew Lang 1878

  • _Pro captu lectoris_, by the reader's taste, they stand or fall; yet even pessimism can scarcely believe that the Waverley Novels are mortal.

    Essays in Little Andrew Lang 1878

  • Shakespeare's fame was and is this: that his dramas were "pro captu lectoris," _i. e._, they corresponded to the irreligious and immoral frame of mind of the upper classes of his time.

    Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • The saying arose: "pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli" -- _i. e._, that the fate of books depends on the understanding of those who read them.

    Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare Leo Tolstoy 1869

  • Verum signo Deum tanquam organo uti, non est absurdum; non quia virtus Dei inclusa sit in signo, sed quia nobis eam pro imbecilitatis nostrae captu tali adminiculo distribuat.

    A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860

  • Verum signo Deum tanquam organo uti, non est absurdum; non quia virtus Dei inclusa sit in signo, sed quia nobis eam pro imbecilitatis nostrae captu tali adminiculo distribuat.

    A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians 1797-1878 1860

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.