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
The noise which 219 had disturbed us was occasioned by the gathering together of about a dozen persons; but a policeman was in the midst of the group, and we heard rumours of an arrestation.
From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Frances Milton Trollope
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 Thomas Paine
He was removed from it, put into arrestation, and carried before the tribunal upon a malignant accusation, but acquitted.
From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason by Moncure Daniel Conway
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 H. Marshall Ward
