ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. MDu. ongearresteert.]

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  1.  Not arrested or apprehended.

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c. 1400.  Beryn, 2188. I woll … assay, yf I may, in eny maner wise, Ascapen vnarestid more in suche maner wise.

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1498, 1531.  [see UNATTACHED ppl. a. 1].

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1533.  More, Apol., 259 b. By thys pacyfyers good deuyse, heretykes maye go unarrested.

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1611.  Cotgr., Descalengé, vnarrested, vnapprehended.

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1891.  E. Kinglake, Australian at Home, 77. The wife of a certain unarrested absconder was observed to have command of plenty of money.

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  2.  Not stopped or checked.

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1733.  Tull, Horse-Hoeing Husb., xiv. 199. The under Stratum must be the richer for receiving what the upper Stratum lets pass Unarrested.

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1859.  Tennent, Ceylon, II. VII. v. 197. The temples of Kandy … are dilapidated edifices, apparently perishing from unarrested decay.

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1869.  G. Lawson, Dis. Eye (1874), 79. If the disease be unarrested by treatment, the whole pupillary margin becomes sealed to the lens capsule.

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