enjoined

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Adjective

enjoined (comparative more enjoined, superlative most enjoined)

  1. Prescribed; expected (by an authority).
    • 1849, William Rogers, Jesus Comes and Comes Quickly, page 101:
      For if there be any book in the Divine record, the publication of which is more enjoined than another, it is this.
    • 1852, Martyn Paine, ‎Mary Ann Paine, Memoir of Robert Troup Paine, page 283:
      The former is no more enjoined by the Constitution than the latter , and the latter no more prohibited than the former.
    • 2000, Shyama Kumar Chattopadhyaya, The Philosophy of Sankar's Advaita Vedanta, page 144:
      But that the nonsensuous transcendental must necessarily be some non-existential spiritual merit, which is to be the emergent product of a certain course of enjoined actions, is not conceded whole sale without some specific reservation .

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Verb

enjoined

  1. simple past and past participle of enjoin
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