arrestation

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Bandy X. Lee: The authoritarian mindset is a familiar arrestation in or regression to an earlier stage of development.

From Salon • May 24, 2019

My expulsion being thus effected, the two committees of Public Safety and of General Surety, of which Robespierre was the dictator, put me in arrestation under the former decree for imprisoning persons born in England.

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Paine, Thomas

He was removed from it, put into arrestation, and carried before the tribunal upon a malignant accusation, but acquitted.

From Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason by Conway, Moncure Daniel

Similar arrestation of the functions of the roots may be brought about by removing the oxygen from the soil around the root-hairs, and replacing it by carbon-dioxide, or the vapour of chloroform.

From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall

The noise which 219 had disturbed us was occasioned by the gathering together of about a dozen persons; but a policeman was in the midst of the group, and we heard rumours of an arrestation.

From Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) by Trollope, Frances Milton