arrestive

adj

1. Tending to arrest.

   “Some [emotions] are Instigative, and others Arrestive.”

   “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.”

   “[…] 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 arrest.

   “As fast they pressed with laboring breath, Clinched teeth and knitted frown, The sharp, arrestive cry rang out,— “The color-bearer’s down!””

   “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.”

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