Enjoin

Definitions: Enjoin

Enjoin

Verb

1. Issue an injunction.

2. Give instructions to or direct somebody to do something; "I said to him to go home"; "She ordered him to do the shopping"; "The mother told the child to get dressed".

Date "enjoin" was first used: 12th century. (references)

Synonyms: Enjoin

Synonyms: order (v), say (v), tell (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Advice	Enjoin, enforce, charge, instruct, call; call upon; (request); dictate.
Command	Bid, enjoin, charge, call upon, instruct; require at the hands of; exact, impose, tax, task; demand; insist on; (compel).
Duty	Impose a duty; Noun: enjoin, require, exact; bind, bind over; saddle with, prescribe, assign, call upon, look to, oblige.
Prohibition	Verb: prohibit, inhibit; forbid, put one's veto upon, disallow, enjoin, ban, outlaw, taboo, proscribe, estop; bar; debar; (hinder), forefend.
Will	Verb: will, list; see fit, think fit; determine; (resolve); enjoin; settle; (choose); volunteer.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Enjoin

English words defined with "enjoin": Enjoined ♦ Hote ♦ Injoin ♦ To go over. (references)

Specialty definitions using "enjoin": Armenians ♦ Cecil's Fast. (references)

Etymologies containing "enjoin": injunction. (references)

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	The public power of all society is above every soul contained in the same society; and the principal use of that power is, to give laws unto all that are under it, which laws in such cases we must obey, unless there be reason shewed which may necessarily inforce, that the law of reason, or of God, doth enjoin the contrary, Hook. (Second Treatise of Government)
The Emancipation Proclamation	1862	And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all case when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. (Abraham Lincoln)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Children	Cote d'Ivoire	Laws also exist that prohibit the abandonment of persons with mental or physical disabilities and enjoin acts of violence directed at them. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Enjoin" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 53.33% of the time. "Enjoin" is used about 15 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)	53.33%	8	124,375
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	46.67%	7	133,076
Total	100.00%	15	N/A

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "enjoin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		urdhëroj (appoint, bid, charge, command, decree, dictate, direct, give a command, ordain, order, prescribe, require, will), ndaloj (arrest, balk, ban, bar, baulk, block, break down, cease, challenge, close down, come to a halt, debar, detain, disallow, disqualify, estop, forbid, halt, impede, inhibit, interdict, negative, nip, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, pull up, stall, stop, tackle, withhold). (various references)

Arabic		‏فرض (assess, commit, direct, enforcement, force, impel, impose, imposition, oblige, order, predicate, prescription, put, require), ‏لزم (hold, keep on, stick to), ‏حظر (ban, bar, debar, embargo, forbade, forbid, forbiddance, forewarn, kill, outlaw, prohibit, prohibition, proscription, suppress, taboo), ‏أمر (affair, behest, charge, command, decree, dictate, direct, direction, fiat, give an order, instruct, instruction, intimation, matter, officer, ordain, order, ordinance, prescribe, prescript, prescription, sound, thing, warn, word). (various references)

Bulgarian		нареждам (arrange, bid, collocate, decree, dispose, dress, have, lay out, make, ordain, order, pack, pitch, range, seriate, set, set out, set up, settle, sort out, tell, trim), налагам (enforce, force, force upon, hammer, inculcate, indicate, inflict, levy, necessitate, predicate, punish, ramrod, superimpose, thrust, thrust on, towel, wallop), забранявам (ban, black out, disallow, estop, forbid, inhibit, interdict, prohibit, proscribe, provide against, suppress, veto), заповядвам (appoint, bid, command, direct, instruct, ordain, require, rule the roost, send an order, tell), повелявам (command, decree, demand, ordine), изисквам (call for, claim, command, demand, desiderate, enforce, exact, indicate, necessitate, postulate, require, take, want). (various references)

Chinese		誥 (grant), 禁止 (Barred, Barring, Enjoined, Enjoining, Forbade, forbid, forbidden, forbidding, inhibit, inhibited, inhibiting, inhibition, inhibitory, interdict, Interdicted, Interdicting, interdiction, Prohibit, Prohibited, Prohibiting, Prohibition, Prohibitive), 嚀 , 屬 (category, class, family, to belong to), 囑�'� (exhort, tell), 囑 . (various references)

Czech		nařídit (command, decree, enact, give a command, order, prescribe, range, set). (various references)

Farsi		مقررداشتن (Adjudge, Adjudicate, Assign, Award, Doom, Govern, Provision, Resolve), سفارش کردن به , امرکردن (Bid, Command, Dictate, Ordain), بهم متصل کردن (Compact). (various references)

Finnish		velvoittaa joku johonkin (charge, enjoin ... upon a person), laskea jokin jonkun sydämelle (enjoin upon a person). (various references)

French		enjoindre, prescrire, ordonner, interdire, imposer (enforce). (various references)

German		befehlen (be in command, command, give orders, order, send, summon, tell, to command). (various references)

Greek		διατάσσω (bid, decree, dictate, ordain, order, prescribe). (various references)

Hebrew		לחיב (bind, charge an account, commit, compel, debit, necessitate, obligate, oblige). (various references)

Hungarian		parancsol (give a command, order, send an order, to command, to commandeer, to dictate, to will), megtilt (forbade, forbid, forbidden, inhibit, prohibit, proscribe, to forbid, to interdict, to proscribe, to veto). (various references)

Indonesian		menyuruh. (various references)

Italian		ordinare (appoint, arrange, arrange oneself, array, book, command, commission, direct, dispose, draw oneself up, file, indent, instruct, ordain, order, organize, pit in order, prescribe, put in order, require, reserve, sort, to order), ingiungere (tell). (various references)

Manx		sarey (command, commandment, decree, dictate, directive, injunction, instruct, mandate, order, precept, prescribe), curmay, curmal (appoint, duty, enforce, impose, regulate), annaghey. (various references)

Norwegian		pålegge (impose, levy). (various references)

Pig Latin		enjoinay

Portuguese		ordenar (appoint, arranging, as instructed, assign, assort, bid, charge, class, command, decree, dictate, dispose, enacting, fix up, frog, impose, Marshal, ordain, order, pigeonhole, post, prescribe, put in order, range, settle, sort, tell, tidy), mandar (bid, boss, command, commit, consign, depute, direct, have, impose, order, order book, require, send, superintend, tell, to send, to send out, transmit), isolar (insulate, island, isolate, seclude, segregate, sequester), intimar (call up, challenge, convene, garnish, intimate), impor (bind, command, force, impose, impress, inflict, lay on, penates, put on, sandbag, strike). (various references)

Romanian		prescrie (administer, dispense, order, prescribe, provide), porunci (bid, charge, direct, order, rule), ordona (arrange, array, bid, command, dictate, direct, give an order, methodize, order, put in order, settle, tell, tidy), interzice (ban, bar, disallow, forbid, interdict, proclaim, prohibit, proscribe, taboo, veto), impune (assign, carry, compel, enforce, entail, force, get, impose, lay, lay on, protrude, rate, tax), dispune (arrange, array, collocate, decide, dispose, Marshal, order, place, set), comanda (be in command, book, charge, command, dictate, engage, lead, order, order about, order around, secure, tell). (various references)

Russian		предписывать (appoint, decree, dictate, enact, indicate, ordain, prescribe). (various references)

Scottish		� ithn (bid). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zabraniti (ban, bar, forbid, interdict, nix, prohibit, proscribe, rule out, suppress). (various references)

Spanish		ordenar (accommodate, adjure, arrange, arranging, assort, classify, command, confer, demand, fill an order, line up, make, map out, Marshal, milk, ordain, order, put in order, rank, set in order, set out, sort, table, tell off, tidy out, tidy up, to sort, will), mandar (be in charge, bid, command, delegate, dictate, direct, draft, draught, get off, guide, instruct, lead, manage, officer, ordain, order, post, prescribe, put, send, send along, send in, send off, send on, send out, send round, sending, steer, tell, tell off), imponer (deposit, enforce, entail, exact, give, hand down, impose, impose oneself, inflict, keep, lay, lay on, press, set, tax), hacer un orden (tidy). (various references)

Swedish		ålägga (command, impose, inflict, lay, order). (various references)

Thai		ไม่อนุญาต (disallow), กำหน�" (doom). (various references)

Turkish		emretmek (bade, bid, command, decree, dictate, direct, ordain, order, prescribe, rule, say the word, tell, will), empoze etmek, yasaklamak (ban, bar, call off, clamp the lid on smth., debar, embargo, forbid, imprison, inhibit, interdict, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe, put a ban on, put one's foot down, put the lid on smth., put under a ban, put under a taboo, taboo, tabu), menetmek (ban, bar, constrain, debar, disable, disallow, disqualify, estop, forbid, foreclose, interdict, prevent, prohobit, warn from, warn off), istemek (ask, ask for, be spoiling for, bespeak, call for, call on, call upon, choose, claim, court, demand, desire, exact, fancy, hanker, hope, intend, invite, like, long, request, require, requisition, seek, solicit, sue for, want, will, wish). (various references)

Ukranian		зобов'язувати (assign, call for, impose, indebt, obligate, oblige, tie, tie up), забороняти (bar, disallow, embar, forbid, inhibit, interdict, proclaim, prohibit, provide, suppress, taboo, tabu, veto), приписувати (accredit, allege, appoint, arrogate, ascribe, assign, attach, attribute, credit, credit with, foist, ordain, prescribe, refer). (various references)

Welsh		siarsio (charge, warn). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	iniungetur, injungere. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	comander. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Philemon Chapter 1, Verse 8
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Dio pollhn en cristw parrhsian ecwn epitassein soi to anhkon
Latin	405	Vulgate	Propter quod multam fiduciam habentes in Christo Iesu imperandi tibi quod ad rem pertinet
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	For which thing Y hauynge myche trist in Crist Jhesu, to comaunde to thee that that perteyneth to profit;
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Wherfore though I be bolde in Christ to enioyne the that which becometh the:
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Wherefore, though I might be much bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient,
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Wherefore, though I might be very bold in Christ to enjoin thee that which is convenient.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Philemon Chapter 1, Verse 8
Bulgarian	И тъй, ако ме считаш за съдружник, приеми него като мене.
Cebuano	¶ Tungod niini, bisan tuod masaligon ako diha kang Cristo nga makahimo ako sa pagsugo kanimo sa kinahanglan pagabuhaton mo,
Chinese	我雖然 � 著基督能 �"� 膽吩 �'� � 合宜的事．
Croatian	Stoga, premda imam punu slobodu u Kristu da ti zapovjedim što ti je èiniti,
Danish	Derfor, endskønt jeg kunde med stor Frimodighed i Kristus befale dig det, som er tilbørligt,
Dutch	Daarom, hoewel ik grote vrijmoedigheid heb in Christus, om u te bevelen, hetgeen betamelijk is;
Finnish	Sentähden, vaikka minulla Kristuksessa on paljon rohkeutta käskeä sinua tekemään, mitä tehdä tulee,
French	C`est pourquoi, bien que j`aie en Christ toute liberté de te prescrire ce qui est convenable,
German	Darum, wiewohl ich habe große Freudigkeit in Christo, dir zu gebieten, was dir ziemt,
Haitian Creole	¶ Se poutèt sa, atout Kris la ban m' otorite pou m' di ou sa ou gen pou ou fè,
Hungarian	Annakokáért jóllehet nagy bátorságom van a Krisztusban, megparancsolni néked azt, a mi illendõ,
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Oleh sebab itu, sebagai seorang saudara yang seiman, saya bisa saja memerintahkan Saudara untuk melakukan apa yang harus Saudara lakukan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Sebab itu, walaupun di dalam Kristus sangat besar yakinku menyuruh engkau berbuat barang yang patut,
Italian	Per questo, pur avendo in Cristo piena libert� di comandarti ciò che devi fare,
Korean	이 러 므 로 내 가 그 리 스 도 안 에 서 많 은 담 � � 을 가 지 � 네 게 마 땅 한 일 로 명 � 수 있 으 나
Latvian	Un lai gan es lielâ païâvîbâ uz Jçzu Kristu varu pavçlçt tev to, kas pienâkas,
Maori	¶ Heoi ahakoa he nui toku maia i roto i a te Karaiti ki te whakatakoto atu i te mea tika ki a koe,
Norwegian	Derfor, om jeg enn har megen frimodighet i Kristus til å påbyde dig det som tilbørlig er,
Portuguese	Pelo que, embora tenha em Cristo plena liberdade para te mandar o que convém,
Rumanian	De aceea, mqcar cq am toatq slobozenia kn Hristos sq-yi poruncesc ce trebuie sq faci,
Russian	рПУЕНХ, ЙНЕС ЧЕМЙЛПЕ ЧП иТЙУФЕ �"ЕТЪОПЧЕОЙЕ � ТЙЛБЪЩЧБФШ ФЕ�'Е, ЮФП �"ПМЦОП,
Shuar	¶ Nu asamtai kakaram Tátsujme. Kame wakeraknaka Kristu akatramu asan "Ju Túrata" Tíminiaitjiame.
Spanish	Por lo tanto, aunque tengo mucha confianza en Cristo para ordenarte lo que conviene,
Swahili	Kwa sababu hiyo, ningeweza, kwa uhodari kabisa, nikiwa ndugu yako katika Kristo, kukuamuru ufanye unachopaswa kufanya.
Swedish	Därför, fastän jag med mycken frimodighet i Kristus kunde befalla dig att göra vad du nu bör göra,
Thai	เหตุฉะนั้น แม้ว่าโ�"ยพระคริสต์ ข้าพเจ้ามีใจกล้าพอที่จะสั่งให้ท่านทำสิ่งที่ควรกระทำไ�"้
Ukrainian	¶ Через це, хоч я маю велику відвагу в Христі подавати накази тобі про потрібне,
Uma	¶ Ompi' -ku Filemon! Kakono-kono-na, ma'ala lia-a mpoparentai-ko mpobabehi to kana nubabehi, apa' ria moto kuasa to nawai' -ka Kristus,
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "enjoin": enjoined, enjoiner, enjoiners, enjoining, enjoins. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Enjoin" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ejoin, emjoi, Enghin, engoin, Enja, enjail, enjo, enjoi, enjoiy, ennon, ensoniq, Eunjoo, Insjon, senjin. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "enjoin" (pronounced enjoy"n or unjoy"n)
4	-n j oy" n	conjoin.
3	-j oy" n	adjoin, join, rejoin.
4	-n j oy" n	conjoin.
3	-j oy" n	adjoin, join, rejoin.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-j-n-n-o"
	-2 letters: jeon, jinn, join, neon, nine, none.
	-3 letters: eon, inn, ion, jin, joe, one.
	-4 letters: en, in, jo, ne, no, oe, on.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-j-n-n-o"
	+1 letter: enjoins.
	+2 letters: enjoined, enjoiner, enjoying, johnnies, unjoined.
	+3 letters: conjoined, enjoiners, enjoining, injection, nonjoiner, rejoining, unjointed.
	+4 letters: injections, journeying, nonjoinder, nonjoiners, reenjoying.
	+5 letters: conjunctive, jettisoning, jointedness, nonjoinders, reinjection.
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