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Definition of Enjoinment
1. Noun. (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity. "Injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order"
Generic synonyms: Ban, Prohibition, Proscription
Specialized synonyms: Mandatory Injunction, Final Injunction, Permanent Injunction, Interlocutory Injunction, Temporary Injunction
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law
Derivative terms: Enjoin, Enjoin, Enjoin
Definition of Enjoinment
1. n. Direction; command; authoritative admonition.
Definition of Enjoinment
1. Noun. (obsolete) A command; an authoritative admonition. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enjoinment
Literary usage of Enjoinment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sanskrit Syntax by Jacob Samuel Speyer (1886)
"... to the vulgar interpretation we have here a very special enjoinment, closely
connected to the pro- ceding sutra (61), not осе of general bearing. ..."
2. Churchman by Walker Purton, Church Society (1880)
"Its observance having been enjoined as a command, in the Moral Law, it needed no
fresh enjoinment. Seeing that the thing had been long before ordained, ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Idaho Territory by Idaho Supreme Court (1882)
"... was deposited in some unusual manner, either by the enjoinment of secrecy or
making the deposit with some person not in the habit of receiving deposits. ..."
4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson. by Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh (1905)
"... towards securing to us our dearest rights, and the practical enjoinment of
all our liberties; and such an one can never fail to give consolation to the ..."
5. The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning (1898)
"To the brother, the Abate then in Rome, How her putative parents had impressed,
770 On their departure, their enjoinment; bade " We being safely arrived ..."
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