arrestive

adjective3

1. •
   Tending to arrest.
2. •
   Tending to stop or slow a process.

   • Some [emotions] are Instigative, and others Arrestive. — 1850
3. •
   (old-fashioned) Tending to capture people’s attention.

   • As fast they pressed with laboring breath, Clinched teeth and knitted frown, The sharp, arrestive cry rang out,— “The color-bearer’s down!” — 1870