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/ɛndʒˈɔɪn/ /ɪndʒˈɔɪn/ Listen

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Enjoin v. t. (past & past part. enjoined; pres. part. enjoining)

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."

(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." Note: 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."

Enjoin v. t. To join or unite. (Obs.)

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... elections at every poll In the Union, the power at Washington strikes down a whole State Government in Louisiana, and holds to bail a handful of women in New York. Nothing can escape its eye or elude its grasp. It can soar high; it can stoop low. It can enjoin a Governor in New Orleans; it can jug a woman in Rochester. Nothing is too big for it to grapple with; nothing is too small for it to meddle with.... By the by, we advise Miss Anthony not to go ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... instant, and then passed on; but after a few minutes, she returned, and came up the ladder with her finger on her lips to enjoin silence. He needed no caution, being instinctively aware that if one parental duty could be more obvious than another to the tradesman, it would be that of crushing such folly as Friedrich was displaying by timely ...

— Melchior's Dream and Other Tales • Juliana Horatia Ewing

... punishment of all those who trouble their heads with other people's affairs, make it their business to create disturbances and misunderstandings in families in their neighbourhood, and do them all the mischief in their power.' My intention is also, that you enjoin them to leave that quarter, and never to set foot in it more: and while your lieutenant is conducting them through the town, return, and give me an account of the execution of my orders." The judge of the police laid his ...

— The Arabian Nights Entertainments Complete • Anonymous

... and somewhat hazardous service to which I assign you I must enjoin upon you the importance of keeping your lights secreted in the hold or put out, keeping your officers and men from speaking at all, when passing the forts, above a whisper, and then only on duty, and of using ...

— Dewey and Other Naval Commanders • Edward S. Ellis

... those that were appointed by the King were come to Modin that they might compel the Jews to do what they were commanded, and to enjoin those that were there to offer sacrifice, as the King had commanded, they desired that Mattathias, a person of the greatest character among them, both on other accounts and particularly on account of such a numerous and so deserving a family of children, would begin ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2 • Various

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