Verb (used with object) : The doctor enjoined a strict diet. ,He was enjoined to live more frugally. From Dictionary.com.
(Dryden Town Board discussions at the last two meetings have focused on the enjoinment action.). From Wordnik.com. [Living in Dryden: June 2004 Archives] Reference
It applies to the enjoinment of certain moral acts bravery, temperance, etc. the performance of which is deemed politically indispensable. From Wordnik.com. [The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas] Reference
Ms. PHAIR: Well, I'll just get really honest with you right now, but I was pretty good in bed, at that point, from the point of view of what the guys wanted, but pretty bad in bed in terms of my own enjoinment, and yes, that made me angry, but it was my own fault, in some sense. From Wordnik.com. [15 Years Later, Liz Phair Revisits 'Guyville'] Reference
The enjoinment of the claims and continuations rules is currently at issue in the. From Wordnik.com. [Patent Docs] Reference
In Section 2 (B) and Section 3, the government had two reasons for requesting enjoinment. From Wordnik.com. [News & Politics] Reference
The slanting posture of the one was a sort of fierce rebuke; the sleeping attitude of the other was a dark and sullen enjoinment of silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Frozen Pirate] Reference
This enjoinment also allows me to use the same qualities that made me successful in basketball: Persistence, knowledge, and outside the box thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Mortgage News Daily - Mortgage And Real Estate News] Reference
This she set out to him not once, but many and many a time, and the boy, who was quick of wit, punctually obeyed the enjoinment of his discreet nurse. From Wordnik.com. [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference
Again it goes back to very, very pronounced differences in culture and it goes back to what we were saying earlier with a facility with language so that is, we are coaching Chinese and coaching a Chinese executive for example working in Western enjoinment or a Japanese executive coach in a Western environment. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Christianity's problem isn’t its commendable enjoinment to protect the weak; it’s the faith’s disgusting idolatry of decrepitude. From Wordnik.com. [A Week To Go] Reference
A monarch should, in the regulation of his subjects’ private affairs, at first by mild exhortation, and afterwards by letters of more strict enjoinment and more hard compulsion — What do you see extraordinary about that bird, Hector? — it’s but a seamaw.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary] Reference
"I pr'ythee, peace, man -- As a compulsitor, therefore, of payment, that being a thing to which no debtor is naturally inclined, as I have too much reason to warrant from the experience I have had with my own, -- we had first the letters of four forms, a sort of gentle invitation, by which our sovereign lord the king, interesting himself, as a monarch should, in the regulation of his subjects 'private affairs, at first by mild exhortation, and afterwards by letters of more strict enjoinment and more hard compulsion -- What do you see extraordinary about that bird. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary — Volume 02] Reference
` ` I pr'ythee, peace, man ------ As a compulsitor, therefore, of payment, that being a thing to which no debtor is naturally inclined, as I have too much reason to warrant from the experience I have had with my own, --- we had first the letters of four forms, a sort of gentle invitation, by which our sovereign lord the king, interesting himself, as a monarch should, in the regulation of his subjects 'private affairs, at first by mild exhortation, and afterwards by letters of more strict enjoinment and more hard compulsion --- What do you see extraordinary about that bird, Hector?. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary] Reference
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