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.

References

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

Anagrams

• join in, joinin'