[F.:—OF. arest, f. arester, now arrêter: see ARREST.] An authoritative sentence or decision, prop. of the King or Parliament of France; a decree. = ARREST sb. 13.
c. 1650. Clarendon, in Evelyn’s Mem. (1819), II. 201. Your arrett is not yet dispatched.
1787. Bonnycastle, Astron. vi., 100. The following arret was pronounced against him, by seven cardinals.
1820. Scott, Ivanhoe. Expert … in all matters concerning the arrets of love.
1841. Sir J. Stephen, Eccl. Biog. (1850), I. 510. Parliamentary arrêts flew thick and fast through the troubled air.
