Meanings
nounenjoinment (plural enjoinments)
plural enjoinments
- archaicA command, decree or ruling from an authority.
Herein exact and critical trial should be made by public enjoinment, whereby determination might be settled beyond debate
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
Synonyms & antonyms
noun(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity
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