enjoinment

English

Etymology

enjoin +‎ -ment

Noun

enjoinment (plural enjoinments)

1. (obsolete) A command; an authoritative admonition.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     Herein exact and critical trial should be made by public enjoinment, whereby determination might be settled beyond debate

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “enjoinment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)