Home › Words › E › enjoinmentenjoinmentenjoinment means A command, decree or ruling from an authority.EtymologyFrom enjoin + -ment.nounA command, decree or ruling from an authority.e.g.“Herein exact and critical trial should be made by public enjoinment, whereby determination might be settled beyond debate” — 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.enjoinder 84% match — A request or demand from an authority. vs enjoinment →enjoin 84% match — To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge. vs enjoinment →enjoined 75% match — Prescribed; expected (by an authority). vs enjoinment →enjoiner 74% match — One who enjoins. vs enjoinment →enjoinable 68% match — Able to be enjoined. vs enjoinment →adjure 63% match — To formally command or request (someone) to do something, either in the name of a deity, or to suffer a curse or punishment if they do not comply; to bind (someone) under oath; to charge. vs enjoinment →commandment 60% match — A divinely ordained command, especially one of the Ten Commandments. vs enjoinment →commanding 59% match — Tending to give commands, authoritarian. vs enjoinment →