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Example sentences for "enjoin"

Lexicographically close words:
enioyed; enioying; enioyned; eniris; enis; enjoined; enjoineth; enjoining; enjoins; enjoy
  1. Should we enjoin you travel, Or send you on an errand into France Only to fetch a basket of musk-melons, It were a favour for you.

  2. You may wonder at it, But it is wonderous easy in performance; But as your penance I enjoin it.

  3. I was your confessor: Did not I enjoin your chaste nice ladyship A dainty penance?

  4. For Heaven's sake, Enjoin me first upon my knees to creep From Verona to Loretto.

  5. This is your penance I enjoin you: keep it, You are absolv'd; break it, you know the danger of it.

  6. Secondly, the metropolitan with his council of bishops, so that the apostolical canons enjoin that if a bishop be accused by persons of the faith, worthy of credit, he should be brought and judged before that tribunal.

  7. Melanchthon for having in his visitation articles (ยง 127, 1) urged the pastors so earnestly to enjoin upon their people the observance of the law.

  8. Commandant, I enjoin you, in the name of the law to proceed at once into that house.

  9. Mademoiselle de Verneuil re-entered the cottage, putting her finger to her lips to enjoin silence.

  10. No, they permit these to remain as they are; moreover, they enjoin us to submit to and make use of them.

  11. Paul does not enjoin silence of the lips.

  12. He stood beside the bed, with his finger on his lips, as though there were some one in the chamber whom he must enjoin to silence.

  13. This would enjoin us from consigning something sublime to History.

  14. She stretched out her arm to enjoin silence about her, held her breath, and began to listen with rapture.

  15. He entreated the colonists to enjoin the utmost tenderness on their servants, and invariably to spare the women and children.

  16. In May last the Supreme Court handed down decisions in the suits in equity brought by the United States to enjoin the further maintenance of the Standard Oil Trust and of the American Tobacco Trust, and to secure their dissolution.

  17. Of course a judge strong enough to be fit for his office will enjoin any resort to violence or intimidation, especially by conspiracy, no matter what his opinion may be of the rights of the original quarrel.

  18. Religion and Morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be, that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

  19. Can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?

  20. I also enjoin you not to love gold, and not to look upon the beauty of women, for through money and through beauty I was led astray to Bath-shua the Canaanite.

  21. As he was among his friends, or disciples, he did not enjoin silence to Satan.

  22. And he who summons another shall go with witnesses to the home of that man, and, if he be not at home, shall enjoin the wife, or any one of the family, to make known to him that he has been summoned to court.

  23. And therefore I enjoin thee to free thyself, as I believe thou art ready to do, from worldly matters, that thou mayst apply the wisdom which God has given thee wherever thou canst.

  24. I've already carried out your wishes, and do you now enjoin all these things on me?

  25. Had you anything to enjoin me, you could have sent for me, your son, and given me your orders.

  26. I enjoin these things then on you, now, for although a mere girl she has everything at her fingers' ends.

  27. So far from your surmise being just, Claude, I enjoin upon you, as a man of honor, never to let her know the subject of this conference, in which she has had no voluntary part.

  28. At the close of the repast, the captain had announced the truth to his passengers, and followed them now to enjoin them to firmness and efficiency, both so greatly needed at this crisis.

  29. The profession consists in a promise to keep all God's commandments, and to perform such penances as the visitor shall enjoin for faults committed in breach of the practices required by the rule.

  30. I, therefore, order and enjoin all those who wish to continue to bear the name of Friars Minor, to leave this house forthwith, and to give up to the rich of the world buildings which are only fit for them.

  31. Enjoin that which is just and forbid that which is evil, so shalt thou be beloved of God.

  32. Then said he, 'O my sister, give ear to what I shall enjoin on thee.

  33. We, therefore, enjoin upon you, to be watchful on your part, and search out iniquity, and put it down wherever it may be found.

  34. And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defense; and I recommend to them that, in all cases when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages.

  35. And I do hereby enjoin upon and order all persons engaged in the military and naval service of the United States to observe, obey, and enforce, within their respective spheres of service, the act and sections above recited.

  36. He who has once loved thee, can never love another: I know it is the custom in my country to have many wives, but this is only allowed; there is no law to enjoin it.

  37. My Persian colleagues are already making signs to me, to enjoin silence on you.

  38. Thither will I betake myself and there I hope to do that which you shall enjoin me the best in the world.

  39. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enjoin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admonish; arrest; ban; bar; bid; bridle; burden; caution; charge; check; command; commission; constrain; contain; contend; control; cool; curb; curtail; debar; declare; decree; demand; deny; dictate; direct; disallow; embargo; encourage; enjoin; exact; exclude; exhort; expostulate; forbid; force; govern; guard; hinder; hold; impose; incite; induce; inflict; inhibit; instruct; interdict; keep; lay; levy; mandate; move; ordain; order; outlaw; persuade; place; preach; preclude; prescribe; prevent; proclaim; prohibit; prompt; promulgate; pronounce; proscribe; pull; put; refuse; rein; reject; remonstrate; repress; restrain; retard; retrench; rule; snub; straiten; subject; summon; suppress; taboo; task; tax; tell; urge; warn; weight; withhold