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enjoin verb (enjoined, enjoining) formal to order or command someone to do something.
ETYMOLOGY: 17c: from French enjoindre, from Latin jungere to join.

enjoin someone from something law to forbid them to do it, by means of an injunction.

enjoin something on someone to demand behaviour of a certain kind from them • enjoin politeness on one's children.