Middle English Dictionary Entry
arē̆sting ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | arē̆sting ger. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Pausing, stopping; (b) capture; esp., the arrest of a lawbreaker.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)476 : Gawein paste forth rudely with-oute a-restinge.
b
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)14 : A-reste or a-restynge: Arestacio.
- (1466) Stonor1.77 : The seid takyng, arestynge, or imprisonement of the seid John Frend.
- a1486 Ordin.Lists in RS 55.1 (Lnsd 285)307 : Arrestynges [vr. arestinges], yif any, shall be made by the comaundement of the seide conestable and mershall.
- a1525(?1464) Cov.Leet Bk.326 : The arrestyng of the forseyde Ric. Hyddesman was lawful, & þe kepyng of hym in prison also.
- (1483-85) Acc.St.Andrew Hubbard in BMag.32152 : Item, paid to Thomas Hamlyn for the Arestyng of Costantyne, xij d.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1443) Proc.Privy C.5.237 : Also be þer commissioun send þarrestyng of shippes in Bristowe.
Note: New sense: 'The commandeering (of ships).'