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Enjoin
King James Dictionary
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ENJOIN', L. injungo. See Join. We observe that the primary sense of join is to set, extend or lay to, to throw to or on otherwise the sense of order or command could not spring from it.To enjoin is to set or lay to or on.
1. To order or direct with urgency to admonish or instruct with authority to command. Says Johnson, "this word is more authoritative than direct, and less imperious than command." It 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.
2. In law, to forbid judicially to issue or direct a legal injunction to stop proceedings.
This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs.
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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
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Entry for 'Enjoin'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/e/enjoin.html.
Entry for 'Enjoin'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/e/enjoin.html.
