arrestation

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Bandy X. Lee: The authoritarian mindset is a familiar arrestation in or regression to an earlier stage of development.

From Salon • May 24, 2019

"General, "Permit me to remind you that I am yet a prisoner in this place, and that it is now one year since my arrestation.

From The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest

Similar arrestation of the functions of the roots may be brought about by removing the oxygen from the soil around the root-hairs, and replacing it by carbon-dioxide, or the vapour of chloroform.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

Had I been an insignificant character I had not been in arrestation.

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas

Soon after I was put into arrestation, and imprisoned in the Luxembourg, the Americans who were then in Paris went in a body to the bar of the Convention to reclaim me.

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas