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en·join

(ĕn-join′)

tr.v. en·joined, en·join·ing, en·joins

a. To direct (a person) to do something; order or urge: The doctor enjoined the patient to walk daily.

b. To require or impose (an action or behavior, for example) with authority and emphasis; prescribe.

2. To prohibit or forbid: The judge enjoined the merger of the firms. The court enjoined the company from merging with its competitor.

[Middle English enjoinen, from Old French enjoindre, from Latin iniungere : in-, causative pref.; see en-¹ + iungere, to join; see yeug- in Indo-European roots.]

en·join′er n.

en·join′ment n.

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enjoin

(ɪnˈdʒɔɪn)

vb (tr)

1. to order (someone) to do (something); urge strongly; command

2. to impose or prescribe (a condition, mode of behaviour, etc)

3. (Law) law to require (a person) to do or refrain from doing (some act), esp by issuing an injunction

[C13: from Old French enjoindre, from Latin injungere to fasten to, from in-² + jungere to join]

enˈjoiner n

enˈjoinment n

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en•join

(ɛnˈdʒɔɪn)

v.t.

1. to prescribe (a course of action) with authority or emphasis.

2. to direct or order to do something; charge; bid.

3. to prohibit or restrain by or as if by a legal injunction; proscribe; ban.

[1175–1225; Middle English enjoi(g)nen < Old French enjoindre < Latin injungere to join]

en•join′er, n.

en•join′ment, n.

enjoin

Past participle: enjoined
Gerund: enjoining

Imperative
enjoin
enjoin

Present
I enjoin
you enjoin
he/she/it enjoins
we enjoin
you enjoin
they enjoin

Preterite
I enjoined
you enjoined
he/she/it enjoined
we enjoined
you enjoined
they enjoined

Present Continuous
I am enjoining
you are enjoining
he/she/it is enjoining
we are enjoining
you are enjoining
they are enjoining

Present Perfect
I have enjoined
you have enjoined
he/she/it has enjoined
we have enjoined
you have enjoined
they have enjoined

Past Continuous
I was enjoining
you were enjoining
he/she/it was enjoining
we were enjoining
you were enjoining
they were enjoining

Past Perfect
I had enjoined
you had enjoined
he/she/it had enjoined
we had enjoined
you had enjoined
they had enjoined

Future
I will enjoin
you will enjoin
he/she/it will enjoin
we will enjoin
you will enjoin
they will enjoin

Future Perfect
I will have enjoined
you will have enjoined
he/she/it will have enjoined
we will have enjoined
you will have enjoined
they will have enjoined

Future Continuous
I will be enjoining
you will be enjoining
he/she/it will be enjoining
we will be enjoining
you will be enjoining
they will be enjoining

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been enjoining
you have been enjoining
he/she/it has been enjoining
we have been enjoining
you have been enjoining
they have been enjoining

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been enjoining
you will have been enjoining
he/she/it will have been enjoining
we will have been enjoining
you will have been enjoining
they will have been enjoining

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been enjoining
you had been enjoining
he/she/it had been enjoining
we had been enjoining
you had been enjoining
they had been enjoining

Conditional
I would enjoin
you would enjoin
he/she/it would enjoin
we would enjoin
you would enjoin
they would enjoin

Past Conditional
I would have enjoined
you would have enjoined
he/she/it would have enjoined
we would have enjoined
you would have enjoined
they would have enjoined

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Verb	1.	enjoin - issue an injunction nix, prohibit, proscribe, disallow, forbid, interdict, veto - command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"; "Dad nixed our plans"
	2.	enjoin - give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed" order, tell, say direct - command with authority; "He directed the children to do their homework" instruct - give instructions or directions for some task; "She instructed the students to work on their pronunciation" command, require - make someone do something request - ask (a person) to do something; "She asked him to be here at noon"; "I requested that she type the entire manuscript" send for, call - order, request, or command to come; "She was called into the director's office"; "Call the police!" warn - ask to go away; "The old man warned the children off his property"

enjoin

verb

1. order, charge, warn, urge, require, direct, bid, command, advise, counsel, prescribe, instruct, call upon She enjoined me strictly not to tell anyone else.

2. (Law) prohibit, bar, ban, forbid, restrain, preclude, disallow, proscribe, interdict, place an injunction on the government's attempt to enjoin the publication of the book

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enjoin

verb

1. To give orders to:

bid, charge, command, direct, instruct, order, tell.

2. To refuse to allow:

ban, debar, disallow, forbid, inhibit, interdict, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe, taboo.

Translations

enjoindre

comandare intimare

enjoin

[ɪnˈdʒɔɪn] VT (frm) [+ obedience, silence, discretion] → imponer, exigir
to enjoin sth on sb → imponer algo a algn
to enjoin sb to sth/to do sth → exigir a algn algo/hacer algo
to enjoin sb from doing sth (US) → prohibir a algn hacer algo

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enjoin

[ɪnˈdʒɔɪn] vt

(= urge) [+ obedience, tolerance] → enjoindre
to enjoin sb to do sth → enjoindre à qn de faire qch

(US) (= forbid) [judge] → interdire
to enjoin sb from doing sth → interdire à qn de faire qch

enjoin

vt (form) to enjoin somebody to silence/caution, to enjoin silence/caution on somebody → jdn eindringlich zur Ruhe/zur Vorsicht mahnen; to enjoin on somebody the need for something → jdm die Notwendigkeit einer Sache eindringlich vor Augen stellen; to enjoin somebody to do something/from doing something → jdn eindringlich mahnen, etw zu tun/etw nicht zu tun

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enjoin

[ɪnˈdʒɔɪn] vt (frm) (obedience, silence, discretion) to enjoin (on) → imporre (a)
to enjoin sb to do sth → ingiungere a qn di fare qc

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Temperance, industry, exercise, and cleanliness, are the lessons equally enjoined to the young ones of both sexes: and my master thought it monstrous in us, to give the females a different kind of education from the males, except in some articles of domestic management; whereby, as he truly observed, one half of our natives were good for nothing but bringing children into the world; and to trust the care of our children to such useless animals, he said, was yet a greater instance of brutality.

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"That will I not, in sooth," said he of the White Moon; "live the fame of the lady Dulcinea's beauty undimmed as ever; all I require is that the great Don Quixote retire to his own home for a year, or for so long a time as shall by me be enjoined upon him, as we agreed before engaging in this combat."

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The females were less numerous than the males, and liable to much furtive persecution in spite of the monogamy the Law enjoined.