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English
Etymology
From arrest + -ive.
Adjective
arrestive (comparative more arrestive, superlative most arrestive)
- Tending to arrest.
- Tending to stop or slow a process.
1850, James McCosh, The Method of the Divine Government, New York: Robert Caster, published 1851, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 422:Some [emotions] are Instigative, and others Arrestive.
1973, Hugh Downs, chapter 11, in Potential: The Way to Emotional Maturity, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 188:This reactive recoiling from something clearly in our nature is itself unnatural. It is as arrestive of emotional progress as the opposite practice of uncontrolled indulgence, which is a symptom, not a cause, of emotional immaturity.
2006, Mea A. Weinberg et al., chapter 21, in Comprehensive Periodontics for the Dental Hygienist, 2nd edition, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, page 315:[…] most periodontal therapy aims to prevent the initiation, progression, or recurrence of periodontal diseases. This can be termed arrestive periodontal therapy.
- (dated) Tending to capture people’s attention.
- Synonyms: arresting, captivating, conspicuous, remarkable, striking
1870, Margaret Junkin Preston, “The Color-Bearer”, in Old Song and New, Philadelphia: Lippincott, p. ,144:As fast they pressed with laboring breath,
Clinched teeth and knitted frown,
The sharp, arrestive cry rang out,—
“The color-bearer’s down!”
1899, Israel Zangwill, “Bethulah”, in They That Walk in Darkness: Ghetto Tragedies, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, pages 198–199:I noted a curious streak of yellow in the silvered eyebrows, as if youth clung on, so to speak, by a single hair, and underneath these arrestive eyebrows green pupils alternately glowed and smouldered.
1916, C. Alphonso Smith, chapter 1, in O. Henry Biography, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 3:First, the reader notices in an O. Henry story the quiet but arrestive beginning.
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