enjoin Definition
en·join (en jo̵in′, in-)
transitive verb
- to urge or impose with authority; order; enforce to enjoin silence on a class
- to prohibit, esp. by legal injunction; forbid the company was enjoined from using false advertising
- to order (someone) authoritatively to do something, esp. by legal injunction
Etymology: ME enjoinen < OFr enjoindre < L injungere, to join into, put upon < in-, in + jungere, join
enjoin Synonyms
enjoin
v.
enjoin Law Definition
v
To order or compel to stop
or prohibit commencement of an activity; of a judge: to grant a court order
directing a party to cease a particular activity.
enjoin Usage Examples
Object
- silence: His gesture enjoins silence on initiates of the mysteries.
- duty: It enjoins the duty of caring, the greatest crime being cooperation in the destruction of life by murder, suicide and abortion.
- right: Its interpretation is still being shaped by the courts, but Article 8 enjoins the right to respect for private and family life.
- government: Then on Ghana, the constitution of Ghana enjoins government to pursue a policy of free and compulsory education for all children.
- man: This was appropriate as Baphomet, like Pan, enjoined men to lust and enjoy all things of the senses.
- people: Posters enjoin people to report on any suspicious activity.
Preposition: on
believer: Fasting is enjoined on all believers between the ages of 15 and 70.
Infinitive complement
- do: As tho the novel were some Nietzschean Pilgrim's Progress, Maskull seems enjoined to do what he must to save his own soul.
- go: Ordered, That Dr. Walker be enjoined to go to the Lord Admiral to Sea.
- give: We were not enjoined to give food to half the hungry and water to two thirds of the thirsty.
- refrain: Although Masons are enjoined to refrain from topics of religious discussion, that does not preclude religious contemplation.
- keep: Every seventh day was the Lord's day; people were enjoined to keep it holy and refrain from work.
- maintain: Pending entry into force, all were enjoined to maintain the current moratoria on nuclear testing.
Present participle complement
fast: The church enjoins fasting: I ' ll starve myself to death.
Modifying Another Word
- strictly: They do not molest the Turks; for they are strictly enjoined never to attack the Turks save in self-defense.
- also: Freemasons are also enjoined to strive for truth in their own lives.
- not: Second, they are ethically enjoined not to touch their clients at all.
- specifically: It was not to be expected that they would voluntarily do so, but surely it ought to have been specifically enjoined.
- now: Hope and deliverance were out of the question; political discretion enjoined even now an unconditional submission.
- repeatedly: That is why Islam repeatedly enjoins us to tread the path of patience.
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