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enjoin
[ en-join ]
verb (used with object)
- to prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis:
The doctor enjoined a strict diet.
- to direct or order to do something:
He was enjoined to live more frugally.
- Law. to prohibit or restrain by an injunction.
enjoin
/ ɪnˈdʒɔɪn /
verb
- to order (someone) to do (something); urge strongly; command
- to impose or prescribe (a condition, mode of behaviour, etc)
- law to require (a person) to do or refrain from doing (some act), esp by issuing an injunction
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Derived Forms
- enˈjoiner, noun
- enˈjoinment, noun
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Other Words From
- en·joiner noun
- en·joinment noun
- reen·join verb (used with object)
- unen·joined adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of enjoin1
C13: from Old French enjoindre, from Latin injungere to fasten to, from in- ² + jungere to join
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Example Sentences
A court of equity though may do this, and enjoin a pledgee from voting the stock whenever the pledgor's rights would be affected.
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Sometimes the courts, instead of going so far, will enjoin them from doing wrongs that are feared.
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A continued to practice as before and B applied to a court of equity to enjoin him.
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Neither was it part of that plan to enjoin either secrecy or the other thing upon him.
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In the laws that enjoin the duty of Covenanting they are not excluded.
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