Word For The Day, Thursday, June 7, 2012 - enjoin

dictionaries ad nauseam | 7 June 2012 | Thursday's sub

[secret garden]

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In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

enjoin (en-JOIN) verb tr.
1. To order or prescribe a course of action.
2. To forbid or restrain.

Example sentences:
"Ajanlekoko enjoined the members of the Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG) to continue the struggle."
---Okwy Iroegbu-Chikezie; Group Advises Govt on Building Failures; The Nation (Lagos, Nigeria); May 22, 2012.

"It asks a court to declare the ordinance invalid and enjoin the city from enforcing it."
---Bruce Vielmetti; Hispanic Group Sues Over Milwaukee Contracting Rule; The Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, Wisconsin); May 1, 2012.

Etymology:
A contranym or word with contrary meanings. Sometimes the meanings are as diverse as black and white (cleave: to split, to stick), but often they are in shades of gray. From Old French enjoindre, from Latin injungere (to join), from in- (towards) + jungere (to join). Ultimately from the Indo-European root yeug- (to join), which is also the ancestor of junction, yoke, yoga, adjust, juxtapose, junta, syzygy, jugular, and rejoinder. Earliest documented use: around 1225.

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....

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Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish (Be SURE to check out posts #92 and #111 on this thread!)
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!

[secret garden]

Rise and shine!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Good morning.

[left that other site]

However much the Union Gangsters attempted to enjoin the People to oust Gov. Walker, Common Sense prevailed.

[secret garden]

Howdy Truthy!

[secret garden]

A for you and the voters!

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Though his spending, we’ve tried to injoin
In Barack’s realm there is no more coin
Our kids are in debt
There is no safety net
But in November, he’ll get kicked in the groin

[secret garden]

Now that’s an America’s Funniest Video I would pay to see! A+.

[xsmommy]

xshub is enjoining me to vote for Jamie Radtke a teaparty candidate for US Senate in VA. I sent this to the kids, trying to educate them on who is running, in next Tuesday's republican primary.

[secret garden]

As Eric Bolling said yesterday, the Tea Party is back! A+ for you.

[NicknamedBob]

Enjoin is related to syzygy?

I did not know that any words were related to syzygy.

[ConorMacNessa]

I harbor great hope that the Supreme Court will enjoin the enforcement of that misbegotten mandate known as The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, aka "Obamacare").



Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[secret garden]

I like when y'all actually read the post. A for you.

[secret garden]

So does the rest of the country! A for you.

[xsmommy]

this is exactly what i was saying yesterday. if the exit polls were flawed in re;Walker why in the world would they be accurate in re; the Obams?

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

We are all expecting the Supreme Court to enjoin Obama and Company from implementing Obamacare.

[count-your-change]

Enjoin

Now i know that one of definitions of enjoin is forbid and I suppose there’s some truth in that as most of the things I’ve been enjoin over the years are generally forbid to the common folk.

Can I give an example? Why of course. I’m sitting in my fav o rite movie theater (there’s only one in town) enjoin a small libation of Ripple and the second cartoon when some kid that looks like Howdy Doody made up as the Joker tells me it’s forbidden, enjoined, which I was up til then.

So as I stand up as the lights come on. I push my enjoined Ripple bottle into his hands and shout that I don’t want a date or a drink and leave but not before telling the “management” they might should check on the kid with the wine bottle. He seems confused.
Enjoining is enjoined.

[mikrofon]

With his glee in promoting more gov’t and acting against the private sector, Obama is enjoin things just a little too much...

[NeoCaveman]

Will Barry enjoin BillyJeff from speaking? Can he?

[secret garden]

They’re insane. I can’t think of any other reason for how they distort facts as plain as day.