Arresting
WordNet
adjective
(1) Commanding attention
"An arresting drawing of people turning into animals"
"A sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"
"A stunning performance"
WiktionaryText
English
Etymology
From , from }, from + , from + , from PIE base (see Latin stet).
Noun
- A check, stop, an act or instance of arresting something
- The condition of being stopped, standstill.
- The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.
- A confinement, detention, as after an arrest
- A device to physically arrest motion
Verb
- To stop
- To seize
- 1919: P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves, page ?
- There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.
- 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
- I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
And there is also taxinomia a principle of classification and ordered tabulation.
Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was and turned into tables …
Western reason had entered the age of judgement.
- I’m using mathesis — a universal science of measurement and order …
- 1919: P. G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves, page ?
- To take into legal custody