Adjure vs Enjoin - What's the difference?
adjure | enjoin |
To issue a formal command, especially in a legal context.
To earnestly appeal or advise.
(transitive, chiefly, literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
* - Esther 9:31
* Shakespeare
(legal) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
* Kent
As verbs the difference between adjure and enjoin
is that adjure is while enjoin is (transitive|chiefly|literary) to lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.adjure
English
Verb
- Someone adjured the editor to cease posting silly articles.
- Party members are adjured to promote awareness of this problem.
enjoin
English
Verb
(en verb)- To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them
- I am enjoined by oath to observe three things.
- This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs.
