arreptitious (2)

[Lat. arreptus, pa. par. of arrepo = to creep towards: ad = to, and repo = to creep.] Crept in privately. * ar-rë'r-age (age = ig), s . [ARREARAGE.] ar-rěst', * ar-rěst'e, * a-rěst', *a-rěst'e, * a-re'est, * a-rest' ( Eng . ), * ar-rē'ist, a-re'ist ( Scotch ), v.t. [In Sw. arrester a ; Dan. arrest ere; Dut. arrestee ren; Fr. arrêter = to march, to cease, to fix, to attach, to decide, to make prisoner, to interrupt...; O. Fr. arrester, a rester, arestiar , aresteir ; Prov., Sp., & Port. arrestar; Ital. arrest are; Low Lat. arresto; Cla . Lat. ad to, and resto = to stand behind, to keep back, to withstand.] [ARRET, REST.] A. Ordinary Language: 1. To cut short the course of anything which previously was in unimpeded motion to stop, to stay. Specially (a) To stop the motion of running water. "An icy gale, oft shifting, o'er the pool Breathes a blue film, and in its mid career Arrests the bickering stream." Thomson: The Seasons; Winter. (b) To stop the advance or the flight of a soldier in battle, the progre of a conquering army or nation, or the course of law. "The fatal lance arrests him as he flies." Pope : Homer's Iliad , bk. v. 70. "His diplomatic skill had, twenty years before, arrested the progre of the French power."- Macau lay: Hist. Eng., ch. xii. 2. To fix, to attach; to call in wandering thoughts or affections, and concentrate them on an object. (It is not now followed by upon .) "We may arrest our thoughts upon the divine mercies."- Bp . Taylor . 3. To seize an offender or his property. [B. Law .] * But areist used adverbially = forthwith, without delay. ( Scotch .) Mercury, but areist, Dre it to obey his grate fader is behest." Douglas: Virgil, 108, 7. (Jamie son.) B. Technically ( Law ): 1. To apprehend or seize upon a person either that he may be imprisoned, or that security may be obtained for his appearing when called upon to answer to a charge about to be brought against hum. [AKREST, S., ARRET.] "Constables were unwilling to arrest the offenders." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxi. It is sometimes followed by of prefixed to the alleged offence. "I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight of North umber land."-Shakesp.: King Henry V., 11. 2. 2. To seize property in virtue of authority received from a magistrate. "He hath enjoyed nothing of Ford's, but twenty pounds of money, which must be paid to master Brook: his horses are arrested for it."-Shakesp.: Merry Wives, v. 1.