injoin

injoin

English

Verb

injoin (third-person singular simple present injoins, present participle injoining, simple past and past participle injoined)

1. Obsolete form of enjoin.
   • 1731, Philippus van Limborch, The History of the Inquisition, Volumes 1-2, page 307,

     When theſe Favours were beſtowed, the Sentences were read over, by which Penances were injoined the Criminals.

     The firſt Sentences were those of the Croſs-Bearers, who were injoined to wear Croſſes on their Breaſt and Back, and if their Crimes were very heinous, they were condemned to wear two.

   • 1751, George Buchanan, unnamed translator, History of Scotland [1582, Rerum Scoticarum Historia], Volume 1, page 238,

     Neither did the King omit to perform all that they injoined him, thinking to be healed in his Conſcience by theſe Expiations.

   • 1823, The Family Prayer-Book, Or The Book of Common Prayer, page 639,

     And our blessed Lord injoins all his disciples to be “wise” as well as “harmless.” Matt. x. 16.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for injoin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• join in, joinin'