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Definition of Arrestive
1. a. Tending to arrest.
Definition of Arrestive
1. Adjective. Tending to arrest. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Arrestive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arrestive
Literary usage of Arrestive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Composition and Rhetoric by Alexander Bain (1890)
"A mild form of the shock of Epigram is seen in the use of the Arrestive conjunctions.
'We hate the sin, but pity the sinner.' 'The world will tolerate many ..."
2. The renewal of life by Thomas King Chambers (1865)
"... and not only of constructive, but of destructive and arrestive remedies—Effects
in disease of healthy and unhealthy ..."
3. The Method of the Divine Government, Physical and Moral by James McCosh (1851)
"I. THE Arrestive AND INSTIGATIVE. The conception of possible or probable evil
... We owe to the arrestive feelings much of the caution which prevails among ..."
4. Introduction to Physiological Psychology by Theodor Ziehen (1892)
"Herbart now assumed that the total arrestive force is equal to the intensity of
... This arrestive force b is sustained by A and B in common, and, in fact, ..."
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