Enjoin vs Impose - What's the difference?
enjoin | impose | Related terms |
(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
To establish or apply by authority.
* Milton
* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
to be an inconvenience
to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
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To practice a trick or deception.
To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
Enjoin is a related term of impose.
As verbs the difference between enjoin and impose
is that 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 while impose is .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.
References
* * *impose
English
Verb
(impos)- Death is the penalty imposed .
- Congress imposed new tariffs.
- Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
- I don't wish to impose upon you.
- Social relations impose courtesy
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