gripping

vaikuttava catch Catching the attention; exciting; interesting; absorbing; fascinating.
(present participle of)
(obsolete form of) (qualifier)
1727, Alexander Hamilton, A new account of the East Indies

The same Night it began to operate by Grippings and Sweating, and he being bred a Surgeon, took some Medicines to correct the Grippings, which in some Measure the Medicine did, but he lost his Appetite (..)