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| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : en-join |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈdʒɔɪn |
Definition of enjoin
Origin :- early 13c., engoinen, from stem of Old French enjoindre (12c.) "impose (on), inflict; subject to; assign (to)," from Latin injungere "to join, fasten, attach;" figuratively "to inflict, to attack, impose," from in- "on" (see in- (2)) + jungere "to join" (see jugular). Related: Enjoined; enjoining.
- verb order, command
- verb forbid
- And yet with what severity do we enjoin children "not to interrupt" us!
- Extract from : « Spontaneous Activity in Education » by Maria Montessori
- And dropped it in the glowing mass—no priest did this enjoin.
- Extract from : « Gleams of Sunshine » by Joseph Horatio Chant
- Every man can understand it, but to conceive it and enjoin it was possible only for God.
- Extract from : « War and Peace » by Leo Tolstoy
- We stepped out from the shadow and held up our hands to enjoin care.
- Extract from : « The Jucklins » by Opie Read
- Her first movement was to enjoin silence, then to gaze about for the goods.
- Extract from : « Hopes and Fears » by Charlotte M. Yonge
- To those laws, enjoin what they may, I am prepared to submit.
- Extract from : « The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) » by Thomas Babington Macaulay
- And if I followed your precepts, what other preliminaries would you enjoin?
- Extract from : « Godolphin, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- They also took courage at what was told them, and were ready to perform what he should enjoin them.
- Extract from : « The Antiquities of the Jews » by Flavius Josephus
- All the laws that enjoin the exercise of Covenanting, were delivered to the Church.
- Extract from : « The Ordinance of Covenanting » by John Cunningham
- In the laws that enjoin the duty of Covenanting they are not excluded.
- Extract from : « The Ordinance of Covenanting » by John Cunningham
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