arrestive
Americanadjective
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His attitude was arrestive as an obelisk and uncircuitable as a labyrinth.
From Eden An Episode by Edgar Saltus
Rachel could not speak; his eyes were upon her, black, inscrutable, arrestive of her very faculties, to say nothing of her will.
From The Shadow of the Rope by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
The accumulation of carbonic acid in the breathed air would also have a similar arrestive power over destructive assimilation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
Before turning to one rather arrestive parallel, a word may be said on Graetz's idea, that Canticles uses the expression "love's arrows."
From The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Israel Abrahams
They were of a flamboyant Italian period, and more arrestive than distinguished.
From The Grey Room by Eden Phillpotts
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