Definition of injunction

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Injunction (n.) That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction.

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Commandment :: Commandment (n.) An order or injunction given by authority; a command; a charge; a precept; a mandate.
Mandate :: Mandate (n.) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
Conjurement :: Conjurement (n.) Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty.
Enjoin :: Enjoin (v. t.) To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge..
Magistery :: Magistery (n.) A magisterial injunction.
Hest :: Hest (n.) Command; precept; injunction.
Prohibition :: Prohibition (n.) The act of prohibiting; a declaration or injunction forbidding some action; interdict.
Dissolve :: Dissolve (v. t.) To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release; as, to dissolve an injunction..
Rubric :: Rubric (n.) The directions and rules for the conduct of service, formerly written or printed in red; hence, also, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; -- usually in the plural..
Writ :: Writ (n.) An instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like..
Command :: Command (v. t.) To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
Rechabite :: Rechabite (n.) One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in modern times, a member of a certain society of abstainers from alcoholic liquors..
Behest :: Behest (n.) That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) An order; a mandate or command; an injunction.
Injunction :: Injunction (n.) The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting..
Command :: Command (n.) An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.
Exactor :: Exactor (n.) One who exacts or demands by authority or right; hence, an extortioner; also, one unreasonably severe in injunctions or demands..
Injunction :: Injunction (n.) A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, insome cases, under statutes, by a court of law,whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ..
Enjoin :: Enjoin (v. t.) To prohibit or restrain by a judicial order or decree; to put an injunction on.
Precent :: Precent (n.) Any commandment, instruction, or order intended as an authoritative rule of action; esp., a command respecting moral conduct; an injunction; a rule..
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