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2. Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare;
insidious; troublesome.

Captious restraints on navigation.

Bancroft.

Syn. -- Caviling, carping, fault-finding; censorious;
hypercritical; peevish, fretful; perverse; troublesome. --
Captious, caviling, Carping. A
captious person is one who has a fault-finding habit or
manner, or is disposed to catch at faults, errors, etc., with
quarrelsome intent; a caviling person is disposed to raise
objections on frivolous grounds; carping implies that one
is given to ill-natured, persistent, or unreasonable fault-
finding, or picking up of the words or actions of others.

Caviling is the carping of argument,
carping the caviling of ill temper.

C. J. Smith.

Cap"tious*ly, adv. In a
captious manner.

Cap"tious*ness, n. Captious
disposition or manner.

Cap"ti*vate (?), v. t.
[imp. & p. p. Captivated; p. pr.
& vb. n. Captivating.] [L. captivatus, p.
p. of captivare to capture, fr.


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