enjoin

<font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica"> <p> <strong> <font color="#000066">Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for June 9, 2021 is:</font> </strong> </p> <p> <strong>enjoin</strong> &#149; \in-JOIN\&nbsp; &#149; <em>verb</em><br /> <p><strong>1 :</strong> to direct or impose by authoritative order or with urgent admonition</p> <p><strong>2 a :</strong> <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/forbid">forbid</a>, <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prohibit">prohibit</a></p> <p><strong>b :</strong> to prohibit by a judicial order <strong>:</strong> put an <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/injunction">injunction</a> on</p> </p> <p> <strong>Examples:</strong><br /> <p>"And yet, to satisfy this good old man, / I would bend under any heavy weight/ That he'll <em>enjoin</em> me to." — <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Much_ado_about_nothing_by_W_Shakespeare/tXlbAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;dq=%22satisfy+this+good+old+man%22&amp;pg=PA64&amp;printsec=frontcover">William Shakespeare, <em>Much Ado About Nothing</em>, 1598-99</a></p> <p>"The city attorney has explicitly written of this exclusion in a letter to the residents of my neighborhood, <em>enjoining</em> us from communicating at all with our city councilors, on the matter of the Zia Station development." — <a href="https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/city-officials-hear-the-outcry-of-citizens/article_0176117e-9300-11eb-99bd-c75d7617383a.html">Antoinette Shook, <em>The Santa Fe New Mexican</em>, 1 May 2021</a></p> </p> <p> <strong>Did you know?</strong><br /> <p><em>Enjoin</em> has the Latin verb <em>jungere</em>, meaning "to join," at its root, but the kind of joining expressed by <em>enjoin</em> is quite particular: it is about linking someone to an action or activity by either requiring or prohibiting it. When it's the former at hand—that is, when <em>enjoin</em> is used to mean "to direct or impose by authoritative order or with u