Enjoin

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  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To direct (a person) to do something; order or urge.
  • transitive verb. To require or impose (an action or behavior, for example) with authority and emphasis; prescribe.
  • transitive verb. To prohibit or forbid.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To join; unite.
  • To lay upon, as an order or command; put an injunction upon; order or direct with urgency; admonish or instruct with authority; command.
  • In law, to prohibit or restrain by a judicial order called an injunction: used absolutely of a thing, or with from of a person: as, the court enjoined the prosecution of the work; the defendant was enjoined from proceeding.
  • To lay as an injunction; enforce by way of order or command: as, I enjoin it on you not to disappoint me; he enjoined upon them the strictest obedience.
  • Synonyms Enjoin, Direct, Command; to bid, require, urge, impress upon. Johnson says enjoin is more authoritative than direct and less imperious than command. It has the force of pressing admonition with authority; as, a parent enjoins on his children the duty of obedience. But it has also the sense of command: as, the duties enjoined by God in the moral law.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To join or unite.
  • transitive verb. To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
  • transitive verb. To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
  • verb. To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority
  • verb. issue an injunction
  • Word Usage
    "This he did not, as in the case of the alterations agreed to in convocation, "enjoin" or "require.""