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2. Verb. (past of arrest) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Arrested

1. arrest [v] - See also: arrest

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arrested

Literary usage of Arrested

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1902)
"Through some unknown cause his mental development was arrested at that age. ... Other cases of arrested mental development occur under the eye of an ..."

2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"THE Journal OF Nervous and Mental Disease ON arrested DEVELOPMENT AND LITTLE'S DISEASE.1 BY WILLIAM G. SPILLER. MD, With Remarks by WW Keen, MD, ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1870)
"About 5 PM, 13th June, he suddenly left his post, and rushed in the direction of the hospital guard room, where he was arrested, and brought into hospital. ..."

4. Pneumonia: Its Supposed Connection, Pathological and Etiological, with by René La Roche (1854)
"Fever arrested by removing sources of infection.—The progress of fever has been arrested by the clearing and washing of gutters, streets, sinks, ..."

5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1892)
"1061 he was again arrested on a warrant, examined by the privy council, and detained in custody at Lamb Inn, St. Clement Danes, till the end of December. ..."

6. Memoirs of the Duke of Sully: Prime Minister to Henry the Great by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Walter Scott (1890)
"... upon this subject—The effects of Henry's journey into the provinces—He resolves to have Biron arrested—Particulars of his and the Count of ..."

7. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1901)
"He had therefore so proclaimed it, and had ordered the boats and arms to be seized and the men engaged arrested. So much was due to good faith and good ..."

8. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"arrested and Aberrant Development of Fissures and Gyres—Importance of the Study of the Comparative Anatomy of the Brain—Some Points from the Brains of the ..."

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