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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Enjoin \En*join"\, v. t. To join or unite. [Obs.] --Hooker. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 --Milton. I am enjoined by oath to observe three things --Shak. 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. --Kent. 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.'' --Johnson. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: enjoin v 1: issue an injunction 2: tell somebody to do something "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping" [syn: {order}, {tell}, {say}]
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