enjoin

  • 31enjoin — verb (T) 1 formal to order someone to do something 2 AmE law to legally prevent someone from going near a person or place …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 32enjoin — v 1. direct, order, command, charge, bid; enact, decree, ordain, summon; adjure, dictate, instruct, call upon; require, exact, call for, ask for; bind, force, set, saddle with, impose. 2. prescribe, recommend, advise, counsel, advocate, suggest,… …

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  • 33enjoin — en·join …

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  • 34enjoin — en•join [[t]ɛnˈdʒɔɪn[/t]] v. t. 1) to prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis 2) to direct or order to do something; charge; bid 3) law to prohibit or restrain by or as if by a legal injunction; proscribe; ban • Etymology:… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 35enjoin —   Kauoha, kauleo …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 36enjoin — To require; command; positively direct. To require a person, by writ of injunction, to perform, or to abstain or desist from, some act. See injunction restraining order …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 37enjoin — To require; command; positively direct. To require a person, by writ of injunction, to perform, or to abstain or desist from, some act. See injunction restraining order …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 38enjoin — To forbid; to restrain by injunction; to command; to order. Ordinarily an imperative, but may be given less than mandatory force in the light of the entire context in which it appears. Good v Fichthorn, 144 Pa 287, 22 A 1032. Imperative in legal… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 39enjoin — v.tr. 1 a (foll. by to + infin.) command or order (a person). b (foll. by that + clause) issue instructions. 2 (often foll. by on) impose or prescribe (an action or conduct). 3 (usu. foll. by from) Law prohibit (a person) by order. Derivatives:… …

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  • 40enjoin someone from something — legal to legally order someone not to do something …

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