n. A captive; a prisoner. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Avarice doth tyrannize over her caitiff and slave. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. A wretched or unfortunate man. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet. [ 1913 Webster ]
The deep-felt conviction of men that slavery breaks down the moral character . . . speaks out with . . . distinctness in the change of meaning which caitiff has undergone signifying as it now does, one of a base, abject disposition, while there was a time when it had nothing of this in it. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ]
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