Instruct vs Enjoin - What's the difference?
instruct | enjoin | Synonyms |
(label) to teach by giving instructions
(label) to direct; to order (usage note : "instruct" is less forceful than "order", but weightier than "advise")
(label) arranged; furnished; provided
* Chapman
(label) instructed; taught; enlightened
(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
Instruct is a synonym of enjoin.
As verbs the difference between instruct and enjoin
is that instruct is (label) to teach by giving instructions 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.As a noun instruct
is (label) instruction.As an adjective instruct
is (label) arranged; furnished; provided.instruct
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(en verb)Synonyms
* guideAdjective
(-)- (Milton)
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.