enjoin

[En*join·]

To enjoin is to issue an urgent and official order. If the government tells loggers to stop cutting down trees, they are enjoining the loggers to stop.

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To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.

Verb
give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed"

Verb
issue an injunction


v. t.
To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.

v. t.
To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.

v. t.
To join or unite.


Enjoin

En*join" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enjoined ; p. pr. & vb. n. Enjoining.] [F. enjoindre, L. injungere to join into, charge, enjoin; in + jungere to join. See Join, and cf. Injunction.] 1. To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
High matter thou enjoin'st me.
I am enjoined by oath to observe three things.
2. (Law) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs.
&hand; Enjoin 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. "This word is more authoritative than direct, and less imperious than command." Johnson.

Enjoin

En*join", v. t. To join or unite. [Obs.] Hooker.

To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.

To join or unite.

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