Usually means: Impose a legal order; prohibit.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word enjoin:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. enjoin: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. enjoin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. enjoin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. enjoin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. enjoin: Vocabulary.com
  6. Enjoin, enjoin: Wordnik
  7. enjoin: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. enjoin: Wiktionary
  9. enjoin: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. enjoin: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. enjoin: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. enjoin: Dictionary.com
  13. enjoin: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. enjoin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Enjoin: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Enjoin: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. enjoin: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. enjoin: Rhymezone
  19. Enjoin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. enjoin: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. enjoin: Free Dictionary
  22. enjoin: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. enjoin: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. enjoin: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. enjoin: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. enjoin: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. enjoin: Legal dictionary
  6. enjoin: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enjoin: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enjoin: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enjoin: Idioms

(Note: See enjoined as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (enjoin)

verb:  (transitive, chiefly literary) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
verb:  (transitive) To prescribe under authority; to ordain.
verb:  (transitive, law) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.

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