Enjoin vs Ordain - What's the difference?
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(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 prearrange unalterably
to decree
to admit into the ministry of a religion, for example as a priest, bishop, minister or Buddhist monk.
to authorize as a rabbi
to predestine
As verbs the difference between enjoin and ordain
is that enjoin is to lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge while ordain is to prearrange unalterably.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.