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Example sentences for "enjoined"

Lexicographically close words:
enioying; enioyned; eniris; enis; enjoin; enjoineth; enjoining; enjoins; enjoy; enjoyable
  1. He enjoined the ablutions suited to the manners and necessities of hot climates.

  2. On leaving England, therefore, he strictly enjoined Catherine not to lie in at Windsor, for he had ascertained that the planets cast forward a lowering shadow upon Windsor, in the week when she might expect her confinement.

  3. It was also enjoined by the canons as a charitable duty to give to the poor meal, fire, fodder, bathing, bed and clothes.

  4. The measure by which that body was immediately stripped of part of its possessions, and a more equal distribution enjoined of the rest, does not meet with your Lordship's approbation.

  5. He was entrusted with copies of the circular letter, which he was enjoined to deliver in the principal churches of proconsular Asia (see above, p.

  6. It is certain that it is not an enjoined rite in the Mosaic dispensation; and, though prevalent before the period of the New Testament, is nowhere enforced or recognized in the writings of the Old.

  7. In that collection of precepts there may be some agreeable to morality, and some repugnant to it, and some indifferent, but being all enjoined by the religion they will all be touched by the same religious emotion.

  8. A decree of the senate enjoined him to desist from the war; nevertheless, under the pretext that the circumstances had meanwhile changed, he continued the siege.

  9. But scarcely had Gaius Memmius addressed his first question to the king, when one of his colleagues interfered in virtue of his veto and enjoined the king to be silent.

  10. Hope and deliverance were out of the question; political discretion enjoined even now an unconditional submission.

  11. In the first social crisis the landlord had been enjoined by law to employ a number of free labourers proportioned to the number of his slave labourers.

  12. But Sulla's offers met no better reception on that account; the senate rejected his proposals without even allowing the envoys to enter Rome, and enjoined him summarily to lay down arms.

  13. The laxity of his military discipline, although it was partly enjoined by his political exigencies, may be reckoned as coming under this category; but far more pernicious was his indulgence towards his political adherents.

  14. Her blood, caught after the Greek fashion in a bowl, was sprinkled on the altar of incense and on the mercy-seat within the Holy of Holies--a hideous mockery of the sprinkling which the Law enjoined to be performed once in every year.

  15. And you hold all means to be lawful that are enjoined in the Law of Moses?

  16. The people who had assembled at Máwab settlement decided accordingly to erect an immense house for the performance of the religious acts enjoined by the Magbabáya of Libagánon.

  17. The use of this shield was enjoined as part of the new ritual and was intended to remind the congregation that faithful male followers would be saved by means of their shields when the world toppled over.

  18. Abstinence from food was also enjoined by the decrees of the great Magbabáya of Libagánon.

  19. The abstention from sexual intercourse was strictly enjoined on all who had received a Magbabáya, and observance of the restriction was rigid apparently.

  20. Opposite the imperial chairs were the musicians, and as soon as the Emperor was seated they executed the best music, which, however, in spite of the strict silence that was enjoined and preserved, fell on inattentive ears.

  21. Then, turning toward his brother, he enjoined him to have a care of the people intrusted to him.

  22. We have an example of this in Japan, where the Christian religion is forbidden, and the Dutch who live there are enjoined by their East India Company not to practice any outward rites of religion.

  23. He therefore slightly touched his hat in salutation, and withdrew to make the dispositions that had been enjoined by his Colonel.

  24. She caught the fainting girl in her arms, retraced her way to the chamber, and depositing her burden on the bed, emphatically enjoined her on no account to move until her return.

  25. With nearly the speed enjoined the adjutant departed.

  26. To live as you ought, and to recognise and command by obeying the laws and limitations stamped upon our very nature and enjoined by our circumstances, is the freedom and the glory of a man.

  27. The fact that this joy is enjoined us suggests to us a thought or two, worth looking at.

  28. And may we not see a sequence worth our practically putting to the proof in these characteristics enjoined on Jehoshaphat's supreme court?

  29. Wisdom and understanding, and a clear consciousness of the duty enjoined on him by God in reference to Israel, were surely more than that work required.

  30. Further, the plain duty of remembering the needy while we enjoy God's gifts is beautifully enjoined here.

  31. The Israelitish parent was enjoined to teach his or her children the law of the Lord.

  32. Here the children are enjoined to listen to the instruction.

  33. It was only by a severe restraint enjoined upon himself by his position that he had refrained from abusing the hospitality he extended, by seizing her in the old buccaneer fashion.

  34. Patient, Good Knight and True enjoined to work and be, 320-l.

  35. Secrecy enjoined on the Initiates very strict; penalties for violation, 384-u.

  36. We must think of some expedient to serve in this emergency, and an expedient will certainly be found; how comes it that you have forgotten that this expedition has frequently been enjoined by the gods?

  37. His mother, hearing of that, entered the fire, and then Sridarsana mourned for them, and performed on their behalf the ceremonies enjoined in the sacred treatises.

  38. She also gave a hat to each of us, and two pairs of shoes, with a trifle in money, and enjoined us to be good boys and girls, and get things ready for her, and that when she should come to live with us we should not be forgotten.

  39. It was necessary to be exceedingly cautious in the use of our bacon; and to prevent the suspicions of the master and others who frequented our landing, I enjoined our people never to fry any of the meat, but to boil it all.

  40. The Lord enjoined that whosoever did not keep the fast should be put to death.

  41. Well, but Dorcas was nevertheless a woman, and she can whisper to her lady the secret she is enjoined to keep!

  42. The celibacy which was enjoined upon the clergy was largely responsible for this state of affairs.

  43. No man excepting the officiating clergy, the bishop, and the steward of the convent was allowed to enter within its walls; and, indeed, one of the rules enjoined that the nuns were to make confession to the bishop through the abbess.

  44. Discreetness, too, was enjoined to the upper household.

  45. Luke, enjoined thereto by Paul, gives to his kindred and friends in Palestine an account of the end, of which he was eye-witness.

  46. She sealed her note, addressed it to Herr von Poseneck, and hurried down to the court-yard to deliver it herself to the Gruenhagen messenger, upon whom she enjoined the utmost despatch.

  47. This was a culpable want of the vigilance which the captain had enjoined upon the guards on the previous evening.

  48. Of course I am not to be deterred by the unfortunate prejudice entertained by you against the Posenecks from fulfilling the duty enjoined upon me by common politeness.

  49. Herr von Waltershausen enjoined it upon me to beg you both, gentlemen, not to delay an instant in escaping the threatened arrest.

  50. In the brief dialogue which there took place between them, Adam was enjoined to carry the whole of the booty to his mountain home, where Chakra promised in due time to join him.

  51. Before he could say a word to express his astonishment, a gesture, followed by a muttered speech from the Maroon, enjoined him to silence.

  52. The secrecy enjoined by the Custos kept Cubina's tongue tied upon that theme; and his own men knew nothing of the design which their captain had conceived against the Jew.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enjoined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.