Definition of Caitives

1. caitive [n] - See also: caitive

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caitives

cairn terriers
cairned
cairngorm
cairngorms
cairngormstone
cairns
cairny
caissaca
caisson
caisson disease
caisson sickness
caissons
caitiff
caitiffs
caitive
caitives (current term)
caixin
cajan pea
cajaput
cajaputs
cajeput
cajeputol
cajeputs
cajole
cajoled
cajolement
cajolements
cajoler
cajoleries
cajolers

Literary usage of Caitives

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry by Thomas Percy (1887)
"... As to live in lust, in lechery to leyhe : Such caitives count to be come of Cains kind ; * But that I little John Nobody durst not speake. ..."

2. The Letters of Algernon Charles Swinburne by Algernon Charles Swinburne, Edmund Gosse, Thomas James Wise (1918)
"... word is this, ye carlish caitives? For this word ye hae to me, There shall never meat come in my mouth Till I be put to sea." And he's garr'd bigg him a ..."

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