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Enjoin vs Ordainance - What's the difference?

enjoin | ordainance |

enjoin

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (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
    • To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them
  • * Shakespeare
    • I am enjoined by oath to observe three things.
  • (legal) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
  • * Kent
    • This is a suit to enjoin the defendants from disturbing the plaintiffs.

    Related terms

    * injunction (pos n)

    References

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    ordainance

    Not English

    Ordainance has no English definition. It may be misspelled.