[a. F. arrestation, n. of action f. arrester: see ARREST v. and -ATION.] The action of arresting; arrest. a. Stopping.
1793. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), IV. 72. This necessary arrestation of the proceedings.
1881. Tyndall, in Nature, XXIV. 467. The arrestation of infusorial life.
b. Apprehension by legal authority. (More or less a Gallicism.)
1792. Hel. Williams, Lett. on France, I. i. (Jod.). The arrestation of the English resident in France was decreed by the National Convention.
1803. Hist. Europe, in Ann. Reg., 70/2. The arrestation of Colonel Despard … at an obscure public house in Lambeth.
1823. Bentham, Not Paul, 96. That visit of Paul to Jerusalem, by which his arrestation and … confinement were produced.
1835. Reeve, De Tocquev. Democr. in Amer., I. v. 131. The arrestation of criminals.
