英和和英

語源

arrest +‎ -ive

形容詞

arrestive (comparative more arrestive, superlative most arrestive)

1. Tending to arrest.
   1. Tending to stop or slow a process.
      • 1850, James McCosh, The Method of the Divine Government, New York: Robert Caster, 1851, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 422,^[1]

        Some [emotions] are Instigative, and others Arrestive.

      • 1973, Hugh Downs, Potential: The Way to Emotional Maturity, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Chapter 11, p. 188,^[2]

        This reactive recoiling from something clearly in our nature is itself unnatural. It is as arrestive of emotional progress as the opposite practice of uncontrolled indulgence, which is a symptom, not a cause, of emotional immaturity.

      • 2006, Mea A. Weinberg et al., Comprehensive Periodontics for the Dental Hygienist, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2nd edition, Chapter 21, p. 315,^[3]

        […] most periodontal therapy aims to prevent the initiation, progression, or recurrence of periodontal diseases. This can be termed arrestive periodontal therapy.

   2. (dated) Tending to capture people’s attention.

      Synonyms: arresting, captivating, conspicuous, remarkable, striking

      • 1870, Margaret Junkin Preston, “The Color-Bearer” in Old Song and New, Philadelphia: Lippincott, p. ,144,^[4]

        As fast they pressed with laboring breath,

        Clinched teeth and knitted frown,

        The sharp, arrestive cry rang out,—

        “The color-bearer’s down!”

      • 1899, Israel Zangwill, “Bethulah” in They That Walk in Darkness: Ghetto Tragedies, Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, pp. 198-199,^[5]

        I noted a curious streak of yellow in the silvered eyebrows, as if youth clung on, so to speak, by a single hair, and underneath these arrestive eyebrows green pupils alternately glowed and smouldered.

      • 1916, C. Alphonso Smith, O. Henry Biography, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Chapter 1, p. 3,^[6]

        First, the reader notices in an O. Henry story the quiet but arrestive beginning.

派生語

• arrestively
• arrestiveness

アナグラム

• Traversie