Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
enjoin .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb See
enjoin .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Obsolete form of
enjoin .
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Examples
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This is why we have the Sherman Anti-Trust act of 1890, and why the U.S. government has intervened several times in the subsequent 120 years to _break up_ monopoly companies or injoin them against particular anti-competitive practices.
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The next thing you injoin me in, madam, is, To give you the particulars of Mr. Grandisons reception from the marchioness and her Cle-mentina on his return to Bologna from Vienna, at the invitation of Signor Jeronymo.
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In a word, let me injoin you, in all your transactions, to remember mercy, as well as justice.
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I have; Said my dear parent, made two things the principal Study of my Life, let me injoin the Same upon my
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 20 September 1783 1993
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Suffer me therefore to injoin it upon you, not to consent to go by water, and that you have no need to do as Tom will wait upon you any day that you desire.
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If a prelate injoin a penance pecuniary to a nnan for his offvnce, and it be demanded; the king's prohibition (hall hold place: But if prelates injoin a penance corporal, and they which be fo puniflied will redeem upon their own accord fuch penances by money; if money be de - manded before a fptritual judge, the king's prohtbicioD (hall hold no place.
Ecclesiastical Law 1797
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