Enjoin (Hastings' Dictionary)

To enjoin is first to 'join together' fLat. in-jungere), as Mt IQ" Wye. (1380),"' there- fore a man departe nat that tiling that God en- joyngde, or knytte to gidre.' But it early came to mean to ' impose ' something on some one. Generally it is a duty or penalty ; but in Jot 36^ it is used in the rare sense of commanding or directing one's way, ' Who hath enjoyned him his way?' (n?) The later and mod.

sense of 'command' is found in Est 9", He 9™ ('en- joined unto you ' ; RV ' commanded to you- ward '), and Philem ' ' I might be much bold in Clirist to enjoin thee.' J. Hastings.