Word Meanings - ENJOIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: ENJOIN

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. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENJOIN)

• Charge
• Direct
• enjoin
• advise
• admonish
• arraign
• inculpate
• entrust
• commit
• load
• accuse
• impeach
• attack
• assault
• impute
• carry
• Command Order
• direct
• instruct
• charge
• bid
• Dictate
• Prompt
• suggest
• order
• pre--crit)e
• decree
• propose
• command
• Exhort
• Urge
• counsel
• incite
• animate
• Impose
• Lay
• inflict
• fix
• set
• place

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ENJOIN)

• Supplicate
• entreat
• persuade
• beg
• petition
• suggest
• represent

Related words: (words related to ENJOIN)

• ADMONISHER
  One who admonishes.
• SUPPLICATE
  supplicate; of uncertain origin, cf. supplex, supplicis, humbly begging or entreating; perhaps fr. sub under + a word akin to placare to reconcile, appease , or fr. sub under + plicare to fold, whence the idea of bending the knees . Cf. 1. To
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• SUGGESTER
  One who suggests. Beau. & Fl.
• SUGGEST
  1. To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects. Some ideas . . . are suggested to the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection. Locke. 2. To propose with difference or modesty;
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• PERSUADER
  One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• ASSAULTABLE
  Capable of being assaulted.
• PERSUADED
  Prevailed upon; influenced by argument or entreaty; convinced. -- Per*suad"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*suad"ed*ness, n.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• SUGGESTRESS
  A woman who suggests. "The suggestress of suicides." De Quincey.
• ACCUSE
  Accusation. Shak.
• PROPOSER
  1. One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption. 2. A speaker; an orator. Shak.
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• MISADVISE
  To give bad counsel to.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• REACCUSE
  To accuse again. Cheyne.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.