Crossword clues for arresting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arrest \Ar*rest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arrested; p. pr. & vb. n. Arresting.] [OE. aresten, OF. arester, F. arr[^e]ter, fr. LL. arrestare; L. ad + restare to remain, stop; re + stare to stand. See Rest remainder.]
-
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.
--Philips. -
(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.
To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention.
--Buckminster.-
To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate. [Obs.]
We may arrest our thoughts upon the divine mercies.
--Jer. Taylor.Syn: To obstruct; delay; detain; check; hinder; stop; apprehend; seize; lay hold of.
Arresting \Ar*rest"ing\ ([a^]r*r[e^]st"[i^]ng), a. Striking; attracting attention; impressive.
This most solemn and arresting occurrence.
--J. H.
Newman.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "action of stopping" someone or something, verbal noun from arrest (v.).
"striking, that captures the imagination," 1792, present participle adjective from arrest (v.).
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of arrest English)
WordNet
adj. commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance" [syn: sensational, stunning]
Wikipedia
Arresting is a small rural village in the Kelheim district of Lower Bavaria, first mentioned in 1086. It is situated about 7 km north of Neustadt an der Donau, on the left bank of the Danube. There are some 130 inhabitants. The former independent municipality of Arresting was incorporated into Neustadt an der Donau in 1972.
Usage examples of "arresting".
If Aiken wanted the police to start arresting looters he was going to have to take responsibility for housing them.
Griff Forteyn was an arresting devil with his shining dark eyes and ebony hair, which in defiance of alamodality, he never wore powdered.
Judge take care not to take any further action in respect of the appellant, such as arresting him, or questioning him, or liberating him from prison, from the time when the appeal is presented to him up to the time when he has returned negative apostils.
Judge take care not to commence any new proceedings against the appellant, by arresting him or, if he is in custody, liberating him from prison, from the time of the presentation of the appeal up to the time of the return of negative apostils to him.
The tone in which Wilton spoke, and the very idea of his arresting the arrestor of all men, and sending up the Messenger of State as a common prisoner to London, proved so impressive with the personages he addressed, that they made not the slightest opposition to his purpose of proceeding, but sent one of their number to show him the way.
Niccolini feared that His Holiness and the Holy Office, having made a great show of dragging Galileo to their doorstep, would not admit to having blundered by arresting an innocent man.
Bertrand, Cabane, and Pace bore upon the rope, arresting his fall, and keeping him suspended there until he should be dead.
Clearly something big and abrupt, and probably cataclysmic, had produced this arresting spike.
As she paused to toss it to the majordomo, Van Duyn studied the arresting profile.
Neither the finding, the arresting, nor the indicting of a defendant has evidentiary value and none are proof of guilt.
It often happens, however, during the first critical epoch, which is isochronal with the technical educational period of a girl, that after a few occasions of catamenial hemorrhage, moderate perhaps but still hemorrhage, which are not heeded, the conservative force of Nature steps in, and saves the blood by arresting the function.
He could imagine far too vividly the police bursting into the house on Paseo Delicias and arresting everybody in sight, and condemning Celia for ever to that strange grey-faced state in which he had seen her last night.
At the same moment that you are arresting Sierge, two of your finest officers will be extending my gracious invitation to our Khelid guest, Korelyi, to witness an event of great import.
There were reports that Schleicher, in collusion with General Kurt von Hammerstein, the Commander in Chief of the Army, was preparing a putsch with the support of the Potsdam garrison for the purpose of arresting the President and establishing a military dictatorship.
I toyed with fantasy images of armed Jamaican Yardies waiting for us at the airport, maybe even Jamaican police arresting me because of some story concocted by Uncle Robert.