enjoin
verb (used with object)
to prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis.
have enjoined
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present perfectof enjoin.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Two lower appeals courts have disagreed and have enjoined the program, which is why the administration sought the Supreme Court’s intervention.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 3, 2022
"She would have complied with the Administrative Procedure Act and no one would have enjoined her."
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2020
The judge could have enjoined the teaching of intelligent design in Dover’s schools, assigned responsibility for legal fees, and headed for the golf course.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2016
Because a man's name is a property right, Greenberg might have enjoined the film solely on the ground that Father Hesburgh, who was easily recognizable as Father Ryan, had not given his consent.
From Time Magazine Archive
I have diminished your labours out of the monastery lest by working badly you should only add to your sins, and have enjoined on you the manual labour of writing and binding books.
From Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison
