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Arrest   /ərˈɛst/   Listen
noun
Arrest  n.  
1.
The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development. "As the arrest of the air showeth."
2.
(Law) The taking or apprehending of a person by authority of law; legal restraint; custody. Also, a decree, mandate, or warrant. "William... ordered him to be put under arrest." "(Our brother Norway) sends out arrests On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys." Note: An arrest may be made by seizing or touching the body; but it is sufficient in the party be within the power of the officer and submit to the arrest. In Admiralty law, and in old English practice, the term is applied to the seizure of property.
3.
Any seizure by power, physical or moral. "The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc.,... were sad arrests to his troubled spirit."
4.
(Far.) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse; also named rat-tails.
Arrest of judgment (Law), the staying or stopping of a judgment, after verdict, for legal cause. The motion for this purpose is called a motion in arrest of judgment.


verb
Arrest  v. t.  (past & past part. arrested; pres. part. arresting)  
1.
To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses. "Nor could her virtues the relentless hand Of Death arrest."
2.
(Law) To take, seize, or apprehend by authority of law; as, to arrest one for debt, or for a crime. Note: After this word Shakespeare uses of ("I arrest thee of high treason") or on; the modern usage is for.
3.
To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.
4.
To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate. (Obs.) "We may arrest our thoughts upon the divine mercies."
Synonyms: To obstruct; delay; detain; check; hinder; stop; apprehend; seize; lay hold of.


Arrest  v. i.  To tarry; to rest. (Obs.)





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"Arrest" Quotes from Famous Books



... a moment's silence, and I asked his two liveried servants who were standing by me why they had not helped their master. One said he owed him six months' wages, and the other said he wanted to arrest him ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... financial difficulties of constructing a railway in Spain were added to by the strange kind of people Mr. Brassey's agents were obliged to employ. One of the sub-contractors was a certain Carlist chief whom the government dared not arrest on account of his great influence. Mr. Tapp thus relates the Carlist chief's mode of ...
— Railway Adventures and Anecdotes - extending over more than fifty years • Various
... was then unfastened and the burglars stepped out only to be immediately handcuffed and carried away to prison, sullenly submitting to their arrest because they saw that ...
— Christmas with Grandma Elsie • Martha Finley
... seventeen times by experienced astronomers prior to Herschel. In each case the planetary nature of the object had been overlooked, and it had been taken for granted that it was a star. It presented no difference which was sufficient to arrest attention. ...
— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball
... Wee Willie Winkie reflected for a moment on the very terrible wrath of his father; and then—broke his arrest! It was a crime unspeakable. The low sun threw his shadow, very large and very black, on the trim garden-paths, as he went down to the stables and ordered his pony. It seemed to him in the hush of the dawn that all the ...
— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling


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