injoin

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English

Verb

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

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 , 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.

References

“injoin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

join in, joinin'

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