I will absolve you from your oath; and, enjoining you only to strictest secrecy, will pray you to depart at once, lest your irresolution should be communicated to the others.
So saying, he proceeded to call up the trustiest of his men, and enjoiningprofound silence upon them, disposed them in various places, that they might instantly appear at his signal.
My will shall contain a clause enjoining and empowering my executors to continue the payment of your income, from a fund especially sunk for the purpose, so long as your conduct shall be in accordance with the conditions stipulated.
The Talmud represents a complicated spiritual discipline, enjoining unconditional obedience to a higher invisible power.
The Prophets were the real and appointed executors of the holy command enjoining the "conversion" of all Jews into "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.
At length new orders came in the king's name, enjoining upon him without fail to repair instantly to the palace.
That night a messenger arrived with letters addressed to the provost of the city, announcing the death of the admiral and the Huguenots of Paris, and enjoining the like execution at Orleans.
Gardiner bowed and retired to execute her commands, and the queen enjoining Renard's attendance at the chapel, retired to her closet with her dames of honour.
This done, Northumberland delivered it to an officer, enjoining him to give it instantly to the messenger, with orders to the latter to ride for his life, and not to draw bridle till he reached Kenninghall.
Enjoining haste on you once more, I trust that love for the perishing country will be your best spur.
The letter ended by enjoining on Douglas to strive with all his forces not to let the hetman go to Prussia, "who if he cannot reach there in the course of a few weeks, will be forced beyond doubt to return to Warsaw.
Douglas grew impatient, and toward night sent forward a small party to the field, enjoining on them the utmost caution.
And finally, contrary to the apostolical precepts, enjoining all to be subject to superior powers, Rom.
He was desired to proceed peacefully, but his powers were almost absolute, as is shown by the orders he carried--orders enjoining all to render him assistance and warning those who might hinder him that they would do so at their peril.
He promulgated an order enjoining upon all the secular ecclesiastics of the country the disavowal of all foreign jurisdictions and the recognition of his alone, and commanded them to sign this regulation in evidence of their submission.
At the Beginning of this Distemper, and to young Girls, it is sufficient to give twenty Grains daily, enjoining due Exercise and a suitable Diet.
Some Expedients therefore should be thought of, that may compensate for the Want of Bleeding, by enjoining proper Exercise in a clear Air, with a less nourishing, and a less juicy Diet.
The Wazir sent every day enjoining the jailor to beat him, but he abstained from this, and so continued to do for forty days.
Uncovering his coop, which he carried at the tail of his wagon, he set two tin cups of water before them, and scattered moistened meal at their feet, enjoining them to hold their peace in the future.
The general, more impatient than ever, again interrupted byenjoining Mr. Tickler to stick to Linda, and omit what Leon said.
And as he concluded by enjoining them to be good fathers, dutiful husbands, and honest men, which three virtues were sure to secure the blessings of heaven, the puzzle became still greater.
Having said this, he called me aside, and enjoining me to keep what he said a profound secret, whispered what will be related in the next chapter, and took his departure.
For myself, I felt like making my peace with my Maker, and enjoining him to send me some less perplexing mission; for the thing got into the newspapers, and we were held up to be a set of impostors, who deserved to be well hanged.
The major now discovered the inclinations of the man, andenjoining him to be comforted, slipped a piece of gold into his hand.
Thus then Cambyses was enjoiningthem to do that which is not permitted by the customs of either people.
And so it has pleased Divine Providence, as I have said, and as we read in the Acts of the Apostles,[404] that the law enjoining the worship of one God should be given by the disposition of angels.
This is the mediation whereby a hand is stretched to the lapsed and fallen; this is the seed "ordained by angels," by whose ministry the law also was given enjoining the worship of one God, and promising that this Mediator should come.
An order was sent from the high tribunal at Rome to all the inquisitors throughout Italy, enjoining them to apprehend a clergyman minutely described in that order.
He also gave us a variety of instructions in other things, enjoining in particular the most absolute obedience and perfect silence.
Captain Jaynes rode hither and thither striving to keep the mob in order, and enjoining silence upon them, and now and then lashing out with his long riding whip, but he had set forces in motion which he could not stop.
These wished to make some representations, but he checked them, enjoining on them obedience and threatening to hang the first man that flinched, adding that he would listen to them after the distribution.
In a short conference, I recited to them the purpose of the council at Ottowa Lake, and referred them to their chiefs for particulars, enjoining their acquiescence in the proposed measures.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enjoining" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
