See Also: product (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Arrest:(law)
arrest(encyclopedia)
arrest(2)(dictionary)
arrest(1)(dictionary)
ARREST(law)
Arrest (UCR)(law)
Arrest(medicine)
epiphysial arrest(medicine)
sinus arrest(medicine)

product (as used in expressions) (sh) and arrest(2) (iou)


product (as used in expressions) (sh)


arrest(2) (iou)



arrest verb. LME.
[Old French arester (mod. arreter), ult. from Latin ad AR- + restare stop behind (REST verb3).]
I. verb intrans.
Stop, stay, remain, rest. LME-E17.
J. Gower A wilde beast, In whom no reson might areste. Caxton Without arestyng for to helpe them. Donne We must arrest awhile vpon the Nature, and degrees, and effects of charity.
II. verb trans.
Stop; detain; retard. (Cf. sense 6.) LME.
arrest judgement Law stay proceedings after a verdict, on the ground of error.
Dryden My Dogs with better speed Arrest her flight. Gibbon In the pursuit of greatness he was never arrested by the scruples of justice. George Eliot Her tears were arrested. J. Galsworthy He found Irene seated at the piano with her hands arrested on the keys. D. L. Sayers Peter made a movement to go back, but a strong conviction that he could only make matters worse for her arrested him. S. Spender A famous educationist whose interest in Education seemed to stop or be arrested when it came to governing his own college. K. Waterhouse I caught his eye and waved to him, a half-wave arrested before it began. H. Kissinger The Soviet advance was first arrested and finally reversed.
Apprehend (a person, a ship) by legal authority. LME.
D. Lodge Sixteen people..were arrested..for stealing used bricks from the demolition site.
b. Seize (property) by legal warrant. Now only Scot. & Admiralty Law. L15.
D. H. Lawrence The Unholy Inquisition has arrested all my pictures.
c. fig. Take as Security. rare (Shakes.) L16-E17.
gen. Catch, lay hold on. obsolete exc. as fig. use of sense 3. L15.
Spenser Whenas Morpheus had with leaden mace Arrested all that courtly company. J. Ruskin We cannot arrest sunsets nor carve mountains.
Fix, engage; keep (one's mind, oneself) on a subject. L15-M17.
Jeremy Taylor We may arrest our thoughts upon the divine mercies.
Catch and fix (one of the senses, the attention, mind, etc.); catch and fix the attention of. (Passing into sense 2.) E19.
Byron The gleaming turret..and yon solitary palm arrest the eye. T. Hardy He was about to leave his hole of espial..when he was arrested by the conversation. E. Wharton Miss Bart was a figure to arrest even the suburban traveller rushing to his last train. A. J. Cronin His gaze instantly arrested by the smudged grey headlines. H. Read A work of Art must be dynamicit must arrest the attention of the onlooker, move him, infect him.
arrestable adjective (a) liable to be arrested; (b) (of an offence etc.) such that the offender may be arrested without warrant: M16.
arre'station noun the action of arresting, an arrest L18.
arre'stee noun (a) Scots Law the person in whose hands another's earnings or Other assets are attached; (b) a person being legally arrested: M18.
arrester noun (a) a person who arrests someone or something; (b) something which arrests; esp. a device for retarding an aircraft by a hook and cable on landing, esp. on an aircraft carrier: LME.
arrestingly adverb in a manner that arrests the attention, strikingly L19.
arrestive adjective tending to arrest the attention etc., striking M19.
arrestor noun = arrester LME.