Enjoin Definition

ĕn-join
enjoined, enjoining, enjoins
verb
enjoined, enjoining, enjoins
To urge or impose with authority; order; enforce.
To enjoin silence on a class.
Webster's New World
To require or impose (an action or behavior, for example) with authority and emphasis; prescribe.
American Heritage
To prohibit, esp. by legal injunction; forbid.
The company was enjoined from using false advertising.
Webster's New World
To order (someone) authoritatively to do something, esp. by legal injunction.
Webster's New World
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.
Webster's New World Law
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Origin of Enjoin

  • Middle English enjoinen from Old French enjoindre from Latin iniungere in- causative pref. en–1 iungere to join yeug- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Old French enjoindre (“to join with”), from Latin iniungo (“to attach”), a compound of in- (“into” “upon”) and iungo.

    From Wiktionary

Enjoin Sentence Examples

  • This is the golden freedom of preaching which the holy words of the New Testament so strictly enjoin upon us....

  • They impose a duty upon man, and enjoin on him a positive line of actiona definite activity in the world.

  • As lack of insight lay at the root of their troubles, it was not enough simply to enjoin the moral fidelity to conviction which is three parts of faith to the writer, who has but little sense of the mystical side of faith, so marked in Paul.

  • But how did God enjoin that law?

  • The rubrics of the MSS., it is true, enjoin total immersion, but it only came into general vogue in the 7th century, " when the growing rarity of adult baptism made the Gr.

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Words Starting With

EENENJ

Words Ending With

NINOIN

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Words Starting With E and Ending With N

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With E6 Letter Words Ending With N