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enjoin🔊

(chiefly literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.

💬 Quotations
At some landmark in the jungle the beater halted, pointed to the ground as a sign that this spot would do, and put his finger on his lips to enjoin silence.

To prescribe under authority; to ordain.

(law) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.

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