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Enjoin
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enjoin vt
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[Anglo-French enjoindre to impose, constrain, from Old French, from Latin injungere to attach, impose, from in- on + jungere to join]
: to prohibit by judicial order
: issue an injunction against [a three-judge district court had ed the plans "W. J. Brennan, Jr."]
en·join·able adj
Source: Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law ©1996. Merriam-Webster, Incorporated. Published under license with Merriam-Webster, Incorporated.