arrestmentn.
/əˈrɛstmənt/ 1.
a. The action of stopping, staying, or checking.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation
arrestc1400
stanchingc1400
arresting1424
cessing1512
stay1537
surceasing1553
staying1563
cohibition1586
intercepting1598
interception1611
stoppage1657
arrestation1793
arrestment1836
stemming1914
turn-off1967
the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > state of cessation of movement > arrest of motion
arrestc1385
stop1544
checkc1555
stoppage1775
pull-up1834
arrestment1836
arresting1849
fetch-up1866
hold-back1888
seize-up1912
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 612/1 An arrestment of the movements of the muscles.
1845 Vest. Creat. 276 An arrestment of this principle at a particular early point.
1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants ix. 201 Any such arrestment of movement.
b. concrete. The material result of such stoppage or check.
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the world > action or operation > ceasing > [noun] > causing cessation of action or operation > fact of being stopped
arrestment1872
1872 H. Macmillan True Vine vii. 316 Just as fruit is the arrestment and metamorphosis of the branch, so are thorns an arrestment and blight in the formation of branches.
2. The action of apprehending a person by legal authority; arrest, apprehension. (Chiefly Scottish) Formerly figurative forcible or authoritative seizure.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [noun]
attachmenta1325
arresting1424
arrest1440
arrestment1474
restc1500
attach1508
attaching1515
deprehension1527
prehension1534
apprehending1563
apprehension1577
cog-shoulder1604
caption1609
deprension1654
nap1655
arrestation1792
body-snatching1840
shoulder-tap1842
collar1865
fall1883
nicking1883
cop1886
pinch1900
pickup1908
1474 Act 7 Jas. III (1597) §52 Arreistmentes be Crowners or Serjandes.
1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 86 To Deaths arestment he began to yeeld.
1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Trivmph of Faith (1845) 101 Loosed from the arrestment of vanity.
1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 375 Judgment in a civil case..upon which execution and personal arrestment can proceed in fourteen days.
1883 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 800 Rothesay's arrestment and custody.
3. Seizure of property by authority of law; attachment. esp. in Scots Law, ‘A process by which a creditor may attach money or moveable property, which a third party holds for behoof of his debtor.’ Craig.
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society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > legal seizure or recovery of property > [noun] > seizing lands or goods > attachment of person or property for debt > arrestment of money or goods
arrestment1581
1581 Act 7 Jas. VI (1597) §117 Quhen Arreistmentes ar maid to mak the gudes furthcummand.
1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. i. ii. 17 Action cannot be brought against him, till his effects be attached by an arrestment jurisdictionis fundandae causa.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xii. 315 ‘Ye have omitted to speak a word of the arrestments.’
1864 Daily Tel. 16 Aug. The peculiarities of Scotch common law..Arrestment to found jurisdiction is one of them. It was derived from the Roman law, and is still existent..by force of custom in London..under the name of ‘foreign attachment.’
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