enjoin
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[edit] Etymology
From Old French enjoindre (“to join with”), from Latin injungere (“to attach”), a compound of in- (“into” “upon”) and jungere.
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[edit] Verb
enjoin (third-person singular simple present enjoins, present participle enjoining, simple past and past participle enjoined)
- (transitive, chiefly literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
- King James Bible - Esther 9:31
- To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them [....]
- King James Bible - Esther 9:31
- (transitive, law) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
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[edit] Translations
to lay on, as a command
[edit] References
- enjoin in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- “enjoin” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
- enjoin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
