0 to tell someone to do something or to behave in a particular way:
The censorate was specifically enjoined to watch over the activities of line officials, and responsibilities and disciplinary rules were enshrined in statute.
Within the home, one was enjoined to install modern furniture and lighting (including the all-important lampshade) and to decorate the room with wallpaper.
Using fictitious languages, they confronted listeners with that of which 'parole' were enjoined not to speak in polite society.
In neither country is such care support enjoined by law, and its provision rests on personal and cultural assumptions of love and duty rather than legal sanctions.
Teachers are enjoined to purchase this software and to use it with their students 'continually consolidating and widening their knowledge and practical experience of staff notation'.
The implication of this statement is that gosains were not subject to a blanket prohibition against marriage, but simply enjoined to conduct marriage with women from other castes.
The two approaches effectively enjoined researchers to look for evidence of cross-sectoral, inter-agency and intergovernmental coalition-building for urban development and to assess its importance within the wider politics of localities.
Rather, it is an ethic that enjoins caregivers to forge relationships with patients that will facilitate communication and negotiation so the treatment that patients want will be successful.
