Engross vs Arrest - What's the difference?

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Engross is a related term of arrest.

As a verb engross

is (senseid) to write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

As a noun arrest is

arrest, confinement, detention.

engross

English

Verb

(es)

(senseid) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.

* Nathaniel Hawthorne

some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials

* De Quincey

laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail

(transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).

To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.

* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :

After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not

* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, pp. 125-6:

Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army.

To completely engage the attention of.

She seems to be''' completely '''engrossed in that book.

(obsolete) To thicken; to condense.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.4:

As, when a foggy mist hath overcast / The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste , / The world in darkenes dwels

To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.

* Spenser

waves engrossed with mud

* Shakespeare

not sleeping, to engross his idle body

(obsolete) To amass.

* Shakespeare

to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf

Synonyms

* (to buy up the whole supply of) corner the market

Coordinate terms

* (to write out in large characters) longhand

References

arrest

English

Noun

(en noun)

A check, stop, an act or instance of something.

The condition of being stopped, standstill.

(legal) The act of arresting a criminal, suspect etc.

A confinement, detention, as after an arrest.

A device to physically arrest motion.

(nautical) The judicial detention of a ship to secure a financial claim against its operators.

(obsolete) Any seizure by power, physical or otherwise.

* Jeremy Taylor

The sad stories of fire from heaven, the burning of his sheep, etc., were sad arrests to his troubled spirit.

(farriery) A scurfiness of the back part of the hind leg of a horse.

(White)

Derived terms

* arrest warrant * cardiac arrest * house arrest

Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To stop the motion of (a person or animal).

* Philips

Nor could her virtues the relentless hand / Of Death arrest .

(obsolete) To stay, remain.

(Spenser)

To stop (a process, course etc.).

* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 707:

To try to arrest the spiral of violence, I contacted Chief Buthelezi to arrange a meeting.

* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 69 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

Knowledge replaced universal resemblance with finite differences. History was arrested and turned into tables …Western reason had entered the age of judgement.

To seize (someone) with the authority of the law; to take into legal custody.

The police have arrested a suspect in the murder inquiry.

* Shakespeare

I arrest thee of high treason.

To catch the attention of.

* 1919 : :

There is something about this picture—something bold and vigorous, which arrests the attention. I feel sure it would be highly popular.

Derived terms

* arrester, arrestor * arrestment * arresting

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