enjoined

comparative more enjoined · superlative most enjoined

1. Prescribed; expected (by an authority).

   For if there be any book in the Divine record, the publication of which is more enjoined than another, it is this.

   1849, William Rogers, Jesus Comes and Comes Quickly, page 101

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   The former is no more enjoined by the Constitution than the latter , and the latter no more prohibited than the former.

   1852, Martyn Paine, Mary Ann Paine, Memoir of Robert Troup Paine, page 283

   But that the nonsensuous transcendental must necessarily be some non-existential spiritual merit, which is to be the emergent product of a certain course of enjoined actions, is not conceded whole sale without some specific reservation .

   2000, Shyama Kumar Chattopadhyaya, The Philosophy of Sankar's Advaita Vedanta, page 144

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of enjoin