Injoin vs Enjoin - What's the difference?
injoin | enjoin |
* 1731 , Philippus van Limborch, The History of the Inquisition , Volumes 1-2,
* 1751 , , unnamed translator, History of Scotland'' [1582, ''Rerum Scoticarum Historia ], Volume 1,
* 1823 , The Family Prayer-Book, Or The Book of Common Prayer ,
(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 injoin and enjoin
is that injoin is obsolete form of enjoin while enjoin is to lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.injoin
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(en verb)page 307,
- When the?e Favours were be?towed, the Sentences were read over, by which Penances were injoined the Criminals.
- The fir?t Sentences were those of the Cro?s-Bearers, who were injoined to wear Cro??es on their Brea?t and Back, and if their Crimes were very heinous, they were condemned to wear two.
page 238,
- Neither did the King omit to perform all that they injoined him, thinking to be healed in his Con?cience by the?e Expiations.
page 639,
- And our blessed Lord injoins all his disciples to be “wise” as well as “harmless.” Matt. x. 16.
enjoin
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(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.