Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of arresting; an arrest or seizure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Arrest.
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- noun
arrest
Etymologies
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Examples
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J'ai demandé son arrestation, et Robespierre, qui parle sans cesse de justice et de vertu, est le seul qui l'ait empêche d'être arrêté.
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With the arrestation of 11 boys with an age between 15 and 18 the police thinks to have finished much vadalism in Moergestel.
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With the arrestation of 11 boys with an age between 15 and 18 the police thinks to have finished much vadalism in Moergestel.
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Pedagogically speaking, the pursuit of a careful literary history offers not a confident narrative (others will do that) but an experience of limited satisfaction and frequent arrestation in saying things about the past and, now more than ever, a continual and always (by definition) unsatisfactory speculation about the origins and implications of acts of mind in the present.
Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History 2002
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The motive for his arrestation was concealed from Schedoni, who had not the remotest suspicion of its nature, but attributed the arrest, to a discovery, which the tribunal had made of his being the accuser of Vivaldi.
The Italian 2004
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To procure the arrestation of Vivaldi, it had been only necessary to send a written accusation, without a name, to the Holy
The Italian 2004
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In the apartment of this man, Schedoni had accidentally seen a formula of arrestation against a person suspected of Heresy, the view of which had not only suggested to him the plan he had since adopted, but had in some degree assisted him to carry it into effect.
The Italian 2004
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“The order for my arrestation informed me.” replied
The Italian 2004
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The kind of parchment, the impression of the seal, the particular form of words, the private signals, understood only by the initiated — all announced this to be a true instrument of arrestation from the Holy Office.
The Italian 2004
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They had no mandamus to do that, but the pretext was the arrestation of
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