enjoin

Verb

enjoin (third-person singular simple present enjoins, present participle enjoining, simple past and past participle enjoined)

1. (literary, transitive) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
   • I am enjoin'd by oath to observe three things:c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
   • to confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them […]1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Esther 9:31
2. (transitive) To prescribe under authority; to ordain.
   • They [the Noahide laws] also enjoin the establishment of a just system of laws and courts.2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 15
3. (transitive) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
   • In 1983, BLM was enjoined by court order from using any herbicides in its Medford, Oregon District. Subsequent court action in 1984 enjoined BLM from the use of herbicides throughout Oregon and the U.S. Forest Service was similarly enjoined throughout Region 6 (Pacific Northwest).1989, U.S. Department of the Interior, chapter 1, in Western Oregon Program-Management of Competing Vegetation: Proposed Record of Decision, Bureau of Land Management, page 9
   • the judicial power of the United States had no power to enjoin the executive branch of the government from the execution of a constitutional duty or of a constitutional law1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law